In rare surgery, Apollo doctors remove Ectopic kidney stone

Kakinada: The expert doctors at Apollo hospitals here have performed a rare and yet critical surgery for the removal of a stone in the Ectopic kidney on a patient successfully.

I V Ramana General Manager of the hospital told media persons here on Saturday, that the patient Neppali Balaramaiah (70) from Nethivaripalem village of Prakasam district was admitted to the hospital with severe pain on April 21 and the Urologists Dr. Ch Karunakara Reddy and Dr. J. Manikanthan had examined him and after clinical tests diagnosed him as having ectopic kidney and the pain was due to formation of stones inside the kidney. 

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Ectopic kidneys instead of normal place situates in another area, which would be there to one in 3,000 people. As it requires special skills and attention, the team of doctors had performed a key hole surgery with minimum cutting on the body that too with almost without pain on the patient and successfully removed the stones on April 22.

He was discharged within a week and in the final check-up on Saturday he was found extremely alright.

The patient has expressed his profound thanks to the Apollo doctors for providing him total relief after removing the stone. Ramana claimed that the rare surgery has brought laurels to the Apollo hospitals in health care.

Medical Dialogues team had earlier published that for the first time in India, the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) Delhi received a referral of a 27-week-old fetus suffering from Bronchopulmonary Sequestration (BPS). The fetus had a large lung mass which was causing a collection of fluid in the chest, leading to compression of the heart and lungs.

BPS is a rare birth defect in which an abnormal mass of nonfunctioning lung tissue forms during prenatal development. It can form outside (extralobar) or inside (intralobar) the lungs but is not connected directly to the airways. 

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