Expert Doctors discusses recent rare and complicated cases : Sahyadri Hospital
Pune 25 May 2018: Taking the patient care in complex care to the next level, Sahyadri Hospitals is going extra miles to ensure patients with otherwise no reprieve get back on recovery track. In an effort to be known for ‘All about possibilities’ experts including Dr. Ketan Apte – Business Head, Sahyadri Super Speciality Hospitals at Nagar Road, Deccan & Hadapsar; Dr. Bipin Vibhute – Liver and Hepatobiliary surgeon, Dr. Yadav Mundhe – Vascular & Interventional Radiologist and Dr. Amit Dhakoji – Epilepsy Surgeon and Neuro Surgeon shared the success story of rare cases and various complicated procedures conducted recently.
Speaking on the occasion, Dr Ketan Apte said that while Pune is becoming a hub for complex care, “Sahyadri Super Speciality Hospital is leading the patient care with many successful complex procedures on patients where there was little hope or reprieve”. He further said, “We are continuously on the path to be a synonym with possibilities so that no patient loses hope in any complex situations. We are there to hand-hold of our patients & provide them the best of the care and timely treatment”. “Besides latest technologies and expert team of doctors, what helps us to expand the possibilities is the undying spirit of our team & empathy towards patient care.”
Dr. Amit Dhakoji, while elaborating about one of the complex cases said that “33 year old female, Chhaya Desai had recurrent seizures. She was given multiple drugs but even with heavy dosage of medicines her seizures continued. This continued for 7-8 years and then she approached Sahyadri Super speciality Hospital Deccan. She was evaluated for epilepsy; she underwent video EEG and MRI which showed left mesial temporal sclerosis. She underwent surgery in January 2018. She visited Sahyadri Hospital Deccan again in May 2018 and now she is completely seizure free and happy as her medications have also reduced”.
Commenting on her recovery, Chhaya Desai mentioned that after surgery I am completely seizure free and this has helped me in improving my social life. There is a reduction in my medications as well for which I am thankful to the doctors of Sahyadri Hospitals.
In addition, Sahyadri Hospitals recently performed City’s first DVT Thrombectomy by using advanced technique called Angiojet. Briefing more about this new technology, Dr. Yadav Munde said, “A 34 yrs engineer, who had multiple episodes of giddiness and mild abdominal pain. Also he was having breathlessness after climbing 5-10 steps of staircase. He was evaluated and treated in other hospital but didn’t improve on his symptoms; then he choose to come to Sahyadri Hospitals for treatment. After he came to us, our team of Doctors Dr. Amol bansode, Dr. Ashish Patil and Dr. Sandeep Kulkarni (Gastroenterologist) evaluated the patient and did basic investigations like sonography and suspected block in veins of liver and largest vein in tummy called inferior vena cava (IVC). The clinical and sonography findings were confirmed by CT scan and then he was immediately referred to me for further management by minimally invasive endovascular techniques.”
Dr Yadav Munde then performed Percutaneous IVC thrombectomy by using Angiojet device. This device is recently made available in India and is first time used for IVC Thrombectomy in Pune city at Sahayadri Hospital, Deccan. The patient was freed from IVC thrombus immediately after the procedure and his symptoms were relieved completely.
Dr. Bipin Vibhute – Liver and Haepatobiliary surgeon while referring to a recent rare case said, “A 9 year old boy, Naitik Upadhyay from West Bengal was suffering from Wilson’s Disease. It’s a rare inherited disorder that causes copper to accumulate in your liver, brain and other vital organs. Normally, in human body the copper is absorbed in certain amount from what we eat and then excess is excreted through a substance produced in liver. However, when a patient is suffering from Wilson’s disease, his body is not capable of eliminated this copper properly and due to accumulation it creates possibility of life-threatening for the patient. In case of Naitik, this genetic disease was detected a year ago. When his family consulted me they were advised to go for liver transplant. From our side we had assured the family for best support.
Sahyadri Hospitals salutes the fighting spirit of the child as well as his parents, who have successfully fought the disease and have set an example for many others, giving a strong message that one should not get bogged down by the hurdles. With right support & good treatment one can overcome the disease.
