AIIMS Jodhpur doctors use fully robotic surgery to repair food pipe
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Jodhpur: Doctors at All India Institute of Medical sciences (AIIMS) Jodhpur successfully treated a young patient whose food-pipe was damaged by acid intake by robotic surgery at the Department of Surgical Gastroenterology of the facility.
According to doctors, this is the first instance in the world where a complete robotic surgery was successfully done for damaged food-pipe by acid intake. The doctors of AIIMS took 7 long hours to complete the rare procedure and the condition of the patient is stable now.
Dr Vaibhav Varshney of Surgical Gastroenterology Department told Medical Dialogues, " The patient was a 27-year-old man who under the influence of alcohol accidently consumed acid. It damaged his food pipe and he could not even swallow his saliva. The doctors at Jodhpur, after much consideration, used a method known as 'Ivor-Lewis Esophagectomy'. During this process, the stomach or abdomen is administered incisions to remove the damaged part of the digestive system. Also, it is either assisted or replaced with a temporary solution."
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