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20-foot small intestine removed from patient through surgery

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The entire small intestine was affected by gangrene

RECUPERATING: Baburao from Madrawad village in Jewargi taluk recovering in a private hospital after the operation in Gulbarga.

GULBARGA: Two Gulbarga-based surgeons performed a rare operation on a patient who was on deathbed and removed a 20-foot-long small intestine, which had turned gangrenous.

Baburao (55) of Mandrawad village in Jewargi taluk in Gulbarga district, who underwent the five-hour operation on Monday night at Avinash Shaha Memorial Multi-specialist Hospital in the city is healthy.

Vijayakumar Kappikeri and S.S. Karabari, who performed the surgery with the help of the anaesthetist P.R. Jajee at a private hospital, said when the patient first came to their hospital, he was unconscious and had no pulse or blood pressure.

Even giving him four bottles of intravenous fluid did not help.

The relatives of the patient told the doctors that he was brought to Gulbarga from Mandrawad in an unconscious state. He had severe pain in the abdomen on December 25.

Emergency surgery

Dr. Kappikeri said initial investigations revealed that the patient had obstruction in the intestine and immediate operation was required to save him. The doctor said he came to know that the small intestine was damaged because of gangrene after opening the abdomen.

Then the surgeons at the operation table decided to remove the small intestine to the length of 20 feet.

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