West Bengal Surgeons successfully remove glass bottle from man's rectum through innovative approach

Midnapore: In a successful and unique operation, a team of doctors at Midnapore Medical College and Hospital surgically removed a glass bottle along with a cork from a man’s rectum by squeezing out the bottle via the rectum on Tuesday.  

The man reported to be in his 30s accidentally inserted a glass bottle inside him following which the doctors noticed through x-ray that the object had moved further upwards encouraging them to perform surgery immediately after an attempt to remove the object without surgery failed. 

The surgical team consisted of Dr Sumitava Pachal, Dr Rafi Moazzam, Dr Saurav Kanji, and Dr Aftab Alam. They effectively extracted the glass bottle and cork from his body, ensuring the integrity of the gut and the safety of the rectum throughout the procedure.

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The incident came to light when the patient visited the hospital's emergency ward with complaints of extreme abdominal pain and problems with bowel movements. Although he had done an x-ray from a private lab, the doctors at the hospital conducted a second x-ray to determine the severity of the case. 

In the second x-ray, the doctors noticed a bottle-shaped object lodged in his pelvis in the lower abdomen region which had moved further upwards. To remove the object from his body through surgery as they failed to do it manually, the doctors took an innovative approach instead of performing laparotomy which involved cutting open the patient's stomach and pushing the object out via the rectum.

On March 19 at midnight, the doctors' team successfully removed the glass bottle from his rectum by squeezing out the bottle via the rectum that reduced the patient's recovery time from four months to less than a week

Speaking to The Telegraph in detail Dr Sumitava Pachal, the lead surgeon of the operating team said, “When we asked him several times about what exactly happened, the patient told us that he accidentally inserted a glass bottle inside him and insisted that no one else had forced or manipulated him into doing this."

“Our biggest fear was what if the glass bottle breaks amid our attempts to extract it out. The usual operating procedure entails cutting the rectum and removing the bottle, just like delivering a baby from a woman’s uterus. But, we decided to adopt an innovative approach where we had to squeeze out the bottle via the rectum, literally like a tomato ketchup sachet”, he added.

"Rectal foreign body cases are not common in a government hospital’s emergency ward, except in psychiatric patients. We will discharge him within a day after talking to the neighbours who brought him to us as he lives alone,” said Dr Pachal.

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