A 48-year-old man who had to wake up every 30 minutes from his sleep for urination underwent a laparoscopic reconstruction surgery at a city hospital recently.
Ashim Kumar Saha, a resident of Durgapur, had problems in his ureter and urinary bladder.
R.K. Gopalakrishna, the urosurgeon who conducted the surgery at Fortis Hospital, Kolkata, said his left ureter and the urinary bladder were damaged. “Neither the ureter nor the urinary bladder was functioning to full capacity. We took 1.5ft from his small intestine to do the reconstruction surgery.”
The damaged ureter was replaced and the urinary bladder’s capacity was increased using the cut portion of the small intestine.
Gopalakrishna said with time, Saha’s left ureter and urinary bladder will start working like a healthy person.
Tumour removal
A 70-year-old woman with multiple co-morbidities and with only one kidney underwent surgery to remove a renal tumour last week at the RN Tagore International Institute of Cardiac Sciences.
The woman’s right kidney was removed two years back because of a large renal tumour.
“The patient underwent robotic left-sided partial nephrectomy to remove the tumour in the left kidney,” said an official.
“Robotic surgery is not only safe and effective but also a preferred approach for complex renal surgery,” said Satyadip Mukherjee, consultant, robotic surgery and uro-oncology at the hospital.
Deepak Shankar Ray, head of nephrology at the hospital, said the main target was to remove the tumour and preserve renal function as much as possible.