Breakthrough Cases

Dr. Seema Behl: Eye Injury due to tire burst

Mr Gautam Kamble - came to us with injury in right eye due to tire burst. His eye was painful, red and he could not see anything from that eye except some hand movements. He was extremely scared and sure that he will not be able to see from that e...

Laparoscopic Hand assisted donor right Hepatectomy

Mr XYZ , 25 year male volunteered to donate the right side of his liver to his mother who was suffering from cirrhosis of liver for which transplant was required. After full evaluation, counselling and authorisation, he was planned for surgery. Th...

Dr. Manish Pruthi, Dr Ahmad Quazi, Dr Tanu Singhal: Allograft-vascularized fibula composite for infected non union femur

XDR tuberculosis in a 16 year old boy A 16 year old boy presented with fever and cough for 1 month duration. The CT was suggestive of pulmonary tuberculosis with a pleural effusion. Culture samples confirmed the presence of mycobacterium tuber...

Dr. Manish Pruthi: Total Femur Replacement for Osteosarcoma Femur

In September 2015, a middle aged man (44 years old) reported that he could not walk or stand for a day. He complained of on and off pain and swelling in his right thigh for 4 months. He was diagnosed with a femur fracture. After being diagnosed wi...

Dr. Abhishek Srivastava: TB Meningitis squeale with spastic paraparesis

Tuberculosis is one of the most common and devastating diseases affecting mankind. India has largest population suffering from tuberculosis and its sequel. It can affect lungs, brain, spinal cord, bones, intestines, etc and has devastating consequ...

Dr Jayanti Mani: Pre surgical neuropsychological evaluation of a 23 year old man with h/o seizure disorder

Nishit had his first seizure at 6 years of age, he had headache, retching, head turning to the  righ followed by whole body shaking and loss of consciousness.  He was taken to a GP and by that time he had a generalized convulsion. He was...

Dr. T.B. Yuvaraja: Cancer Kidney- Robotic Partial Nephrectomy

Mrs. XYZ, a 52 years old female suffering from chronic kidney disease for a long time was found to have tumour in her kidney. She was advised removal of the tumour bearing kidney which put her into the risk of permanent dialysis in the future by o...

Dr. T.B. Yuvaraja: Cancer Bladder- Robotic Radical Cystectomy and Neobladder

Mr. ABC, a 48years old smoker with complaints of blood in urine was investigated and found to have a tumour in his bladder. At his home town, as the tumor was very big, he was advised removal of his bladder surgically by oprn technique which would...

Dr. Suchitra Pandit: Quintuplets delivered without any treatment

This is a case report of spontaneously conceived Quintuplets ( 5 Babies ) without any treatment. Patient was carrying 5 babies. As leaking started, means water bag of one fetus ruptured... So at 28 weeks  ie at 7 month patient was referred ...

Dr. Puja Dewan: Third Party Reproduction

Case 1 - Third Party Reproduction This case involved three parties – eggs from a voluntary egg donor; sperms from the commissioning male [potential father] and womb of the commissioning female [potential mother – donor egg recipien...

Dr. Pravin Kahale: Anterior Wall Myocardial Infarction in 55 year old

A 55 years old male with no significant past history, complained of chest pain on 29-06-15 associated with sweating. He was taken to a private nursing home where he was diagnosed with Anterior wall Myocardial Infarction (Heart Attack) and was mana...

Dr. Alaric Aroojis: Osteogenesis Imperfecta or Brittle Bone Disease

Zahraa Thani is a 12 year old Iraqi girl with Osteogenesis Imperfecta or Brittle bone disease, a rare skeletal disease where the bones fracture repeatedly & heal with severe deformities. When Zahraa first presented to us, she had severe b...

Dr Shantala Vadeyar: Extremely High Risk Pregnancy

Thrombocytopenia (Low platelets) in pregnancy Mrs PR, a 32 year old lady in her first pregnancy came to consult me at 8 weeks of pregnancy with an extremely low platelet count.  Both she and her husband has been by their doctors warned t...

Dr. Suchitra Pandit: Successful Management of a pregnancy in a morbidly obese women referred with eclampsia

Primigravida Mrs.ABC with 39+4 weeks POG with severe PIH with eclampsia with maternal morbid obesity (BMI – 65.66 kg / m 2) referred from private nursing home (PNH) for further management. She had H/O generalised clonic tonic convulsion...

Dr. Mandar Deshpande - The Da Vinci Robotic System

Case I: PARAPHARYNGEAL SPACE TUMOR A young patient presented with a tumor around his pharynx (the passage that leads from the cavities of the nose to voice box and food pipe). The surgery is usually done through a cut in the neck. The patient ...

Dr Anshumala Shukla-Kulkarni - Finally God has done it!

An International Patient came to Dr. Anshumala Shukla last year for repeated pregnancy losses, total no 4, at 4 months and 5 months. She had PCOD (Polycystic Ovarian Disease) and Dr. Shukla  diagnosed her as having an incompetent cervical os ...

Dr. Rajendra Sonawane: Rare ‘Central Pancreatectomy ‘ for insulin producing Tumor

Insulin producing tumour in pancreas is known as insulinomas. High insulin production leads to life threatening attacks of seriously low blood sugar. Diagnosis of such tumours is challenging. After years of visiting multiple hospitals, this patien...

Dr. Rajendra Sonawane: Laparoscopic total gastrectomy and creation of neo stomach with jejunal pouch for giant multicentric GIST

Gastrointestinal Stromal tumors are rare GI tumors. A stomach riddled with multiple giant sized (more than 10 cm) GISTs Tumour was successfully removed through laparoscope. A complex reconstruction was performed to restore the function of stomach ...

Dr. Rajendra Sonawane: Mumbai’s First robotic surgery for cancer of rectum

At Kokilaben Dhirubhai Ambani Hospital, laparoscopic colon and rectal cancer surgery is the standard of care. Recently, state of the art Robotics has added precision, ease and 3-dimensional visions to this operation. We have applied this technolog...

Dr. Shreyash Gajjar: Elbow Ligament Reconstruction for Dislocation

On 14th March 2015, Dr Shreyash Gajjar was the 1st in India to perform this procedure using the Internal Brace technique. Elbow dislocation which results from fall or accidental injury results in tear of one or both of the joint's supporting lig...