Mangaluru : A 33-week pregnant woman from Uttara Kannada, referred to Govt Lady Goschen Hospital in the city after a private hospital in Udupi district considered her case extremely high-risk, was saved following a four-hour complex surgery involving specialists from multiple disciplines.
Dr Durgaprasad MR, medical superintendent of Lady Goschen Hospital, said the woman had placenta percreta with severe damage to the urinary bladder. Such cases require hysterectomy and can result in blood loss of three to four litres, posing a major challenge to saving the patient’s life, he said. As the intestines could also have been affected, urologists and general surgeons were brought into the operating theatre in advance. During the surgery, KMC urologists Dr Pramod, Dr Meet and Dr Shivanand reconstructed the severely damaged urinary bladder, while anaesthesiologist Dr Shilpa monitored the patient’s vital signs.