18 tumours removed during surgery at LGH

LAHORE : A unique operation of its own kind has taken place here at Lahore General Hospital (LGH) where a team of doctors led by Consultant Gynecologist Dr Laila Shafiq performed a two-hour-long operation of a 46-year-old patient Seeba and removed 18 tumours from her uterus.

It is mentionable that doctors not only saved the life of the patient but also remained successful to restore her uterus and ovaries which would enable her to give birth as her organs have not been harmed. Dr Laila Shafiq, in this regard, said that although the operation of the uterus is a normal thing but this surgery was unusual in the sense that 18 cysts / tumours have been removed from the uterus of the patient, which is unprecedented in the recent past in any case.

Principal Ameer Uddin Medical College/PGMI Prof. Al Fareed Zafar congratulated the doctors and their team for successfully completing the extremely complex operation and saving the patient's life by removing a large number of tumors. Prof Al Fareed Zafar said that despite removing such a number of tumours, it is a great achievement of gynecologists to preserve the patient’s ovaries.

Dr Laila Shafiq said that Seeba was brought for treatment, where after a detailed medical examination by the doctors, she was admitted to the Gynecology Ward, the patient was suffering from severe anemia and internal abdominal due to the large number of tumours in her limbs, she was having difficulty in walking. Accordingly the patient's necessary diagnostic tests were completed on priority basis and three bottles of blood were transfused pre-operatively to compensate for the anemia. The patient was made operable by raising K-hemoglobin. Dr Laila Shafiq added that after completing all the SOPs, the team of doctors successfully completed a complex operation after two hours of hard work. After all the tumours were removed, the patient breathed a sigh of relief.

The remarkable and unique thing to mention about this operation was that the doctors did not let both of the patient's ovaries get damaged and managed to preserve them so that the lady would not lose her ability to become a mother. In a conversation with the media at the time of discharging from hospital, the patient was given required medicines from many doctors for the physical treatment of Seeba. The family of Seeba expressed their gratitude to the doctor’s team and administration of LGH for extending such cooperation and providing best possible facilities which have given new life to the patient.