KGMU doctors give new lease of life to 36-year-old woman who drank battery water

Lucknow: Doctors at the King George's Medical University (KGMU) hhave given a new lease of life to a 36-year-old woman who had damaged her esophagus (food pipe) and a part of stomach by accidentally drinking acidic battery water.
The surgeons made an alternate 'food pipe' using a segment of the colon of the patient with a procedure called esophago coloplasty that connected the throat to the small intestine directly for digestion.
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The surgery was done last week by a team of doctors led by associate professor of the general surgery department Dr Pankaj Kumar.
The patient was discharged on Wednesday after full recovery.
Such a complex surgery was done for the first time in KGMU, said doctors.
The woman, a resident of Gonda, was brought to the General Surgery department of KGMU in December 2022.
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