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Laparoscopic Pyeloplasty to cure Horse Shoe Kidney with PUJ Obstruction

admin — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 10:58:22 +0000

A young female patient named Mrs. Tripta Goel age 25 years from Mandi Gobind Garh (Punjab) India, presented with pain in left flank. Her initial investigations showed that she was having anomaly in her kidney, which is called Horse Shoe kidney. In addition, she was having obstruction at the junction of pelvis and ureter (PUJ Obstruction). This problem requires surgery (Pyeloplasty).

The chief urologist at RG Stone, Ludhiana, Dr. Anand Sehgal (Mch, Urology) performed the procedure of Laparoscopic Pyeloplasty on 29th October, 2009. Conventionally, this surgery is being done through a large incision in abdomen which require prolonged hospitalization and painful recovery. However, surgery at our center was done laparoscopically through three small holes. Mrs. Tripta was discharged from hospital on 4th day in satisfactory condition. This is a technically demanding procedure and is considered to be an advanced laparoscopic urological procedure which is being done in very few centers in India.

Kudos for the team RG

admin — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 13:39:39 +0000

Me & my wife came India for the holiday. Before coming here, I was suffering from hernia & my wife had sinus problem. Therefore, while on the tour we decided for the surgery. I searched on the web about the best hospital for the hernia treatment. We found so many hospitals but after going through several enquiries, we both decided to go for speciality hospital that is RG Stone, Ludhiana. We were warmly welcomed by it’s medical superintendent & his core team. It was a pleasant experience of getting an expert treatment from Dr. H.S. Jolly (Laparoscopic Surgeon), Dr. S.V. Gupta (ENT Surgeon) & their team. After the surgery, within two days we were feeling much more comfortable.

All in all, we are really impressed by the facilities provided by the hospital & pleasing behavior of staff. Thanks to entire RG Stone family. Keep it up…

Mr. & Mrs. Peter T. Sweka
Directorate of Youth & Sports, Sudan

Child’s gall stones removed by needloscopy

admin — Tue, 15 May 2007 13:16:15 +0000

A team of doctors at RG Stone and Super Speciality Hospital, successfully performed a highly advanced needloscopy operation on three and a half year old girl, Anisha for removal of gall stones. It was the first surgical procedure of its kind in Punjab.

The surgery known as “micro-invasive laparoscopic cholecystectomy or needloscopy” was performed by Dr H.S. Jolly, Chief Laparoscopic Surgeon at the centre, who was assisted by Dr Anand Sehgal, Urologist, and Dr Bhupinder Pal Singh, Consultant Anesthesiologist.

Dr Jolly informed that Anisha had been complaining of pain in the abdomen for close to a year but all medications had failed to help her. With time, she also developed recurrent nausea and vomiting along with generalised weakness. As her symptoms worsened, her parents brought her to city hospital.

“Thorough examination and investigations revealed that Anisha had a stone in her gall bladder, which was the reason for her agony. She was admitted to the hospital on May 8 where the child underwent needloscopy on May 9. In this procedure, state-of-the-art miniature laparoscope (4 mm), also known as needloscope, was used and only three very small holes of 5 mm were made through the abdomen. After 72 hours of observation, the patient was found to have fully recovered.”

Dr Jolly said gall stones were earlier treated conventionally by open cholecystectomy, but with the development of laparoscopy and minimal invasive surgical techniques, laparoscopic cholecystectomy was the treatment of choice even in children. Dr Jolly claimed that the advantages of needloscopy over the routine laparoscopic surgery were invisible scar, lesser hospital stay, lesser pain and lesser requirement of medication.

Moreover, the minimal invasive surgery, or for that matter a procedure like needloscopy, was not that expensive and cost almost the same like traditional surgery, if shorter stay in the hospital and fast recovery were taken in consideration.