Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Aug 3: Doctors of JK Medicity Hospital have provided a chance of smiling to Jammuites by performing successfully a rare surgery on a retired engineer, who was suffering from block in the kidney and had planned to undergo major surgery in big corporate hospital in Delhi.
GR Sawhney who already had a open heart surgery for triple vessel disease in the heart and had kidney stone removal few years back, now presented with block in the drainage system of the same kidney due to a congenital defect, that the ureter (draining tube of the kidney) passes behind the major vessels of the body instead of passing next to it.
Dr Raja Langer, Consultant Urologist and Kidney Transplant surgeon, successfully operated upon this defect of Genito urinary system by releasing the urinary tube from the major vessels and rejoining it. This entity is named as Retro Caval ureter and dismembered pyeloplasty was done on it.
Dr Gurjeet Singh, eminent cardiothoracic and vascular surgeon did the vascular part of the surgery and released the defect of major vessels and urinary tube.
The procedure lasted for three hours in which cardiac anaesthesia was administered by Dr Gurmeet Singh, Anaesthetist to this already cardiac compromised patient.
Dr Gagan, (MD) Medicity Hospital, revealed that the hospital has world class infrastructure to carry out major surgeries and steps have been taken to increase and strengthen it.
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