Docs remove pin from woman’s intestine without surgery
THE PIN WAS RECOVERED FROM HER SMALL INTESTINE, AND SHE DID NOT HAVE TO UNDERGO SURGERY, SAID DOCTORS
City doctors removed a 5.2-cm-long iron pin non-surgically from the intestine of a 28-year-old woman, at the Fortis SL Raheja Hospital.
Advanced and specialised endoscopy equipment, called a ‘single balloon enteroscope’, was used to navigate through long intestine and carefully retrieve the pin.
In endoscopy, an instrument is inserted into the body for a view of the internal parts.
Th doctors said the patient was holding the pin in her mouth to free up her hands to tie a veil, when she swallowed it.
“Surprisingly, she did not report any symptoms after she swallowed it. She was brought to the hospital’s emergency department with severe abdominal pain only six hours later,” said Dr Mehul Choksi, consultant gastroenterologist and therapeutic endoscopist. Dr Choksi performed an upper gastrointestinal endoscopy to remove it. When such objects are ingested, there is a high chance that it pokes holes or leads to other complications, if the patient waits for it to pass naturally.
The endoscopy showed the pin was not in her stomach or early small intestine, but had migrated deep into the long small intestine, or jejunum.
The doctors said there were no complications and the patient was discharged the next day. She is doing well and eating normally, her doctors said.