16-year-old Andriy in Mukachevo suffered severe bruising of his internal organs while playing with friends on the carousel. Local doctors stabilized the child’s serious condition, but a serious complication began. The tumor progressed quickly, so they decided to take Andriy to Lviv doctors for treatment. In Lviv, specialists from two hospitals of the First Medical Association performed a complex operation at once – and did it without any external incision.
The accident with 16-year-old Andrii happened a month ago, during a walk with friends. While playing, the boy accidentally jumped on the merry-go-round and hit himself hard. It immediately became difficult for him to breathe and even move. Friends helped Andrii get home. The boy’s mother recalls: her son was exhausted, and the skin on his face was very dark. So the woman immediately called an ambulance.
The teenager was taken to the Mukachevo hospital. During the first days, the patient was constantly vomiting, had a high temperature, and no painkillers made him feel better. The injuries were severe and multiple. Contusion of the internal organs, the liver enlarged several times from the impact and rupture of the pancreas, due to which twelve cysts were formed, which fused into one continuous one.
Local doctors provided the boy with all the necessary first aid and treated him for several weeks. However, despite their efforts, the boy’s condition continued to deteriorate. So the doctors decided to transport the patient to Lviv. Here, surgeons from two institutions of the First Medical Association of Lviv – St. Panteleimon Hospital and St. Nicholas Children’s Hospital – began to save Andriy. The doctors decided that they would try to operate on the boy without any external incision.
“Through the oral cavity – with the help of a special device with an ultrasound sensor, the doctors penetrated the stomach and made an opening through which the cyst partially leaked out. In the same opening, the surgeons also installed two stents, through which the contents of the neoplasm will flow into the stomach for a few more weeks,” explains the First TMO of Lviv.
The operation was successful and without any external incisions. Doctors say that the experience of operating on such pathologies in children is scarce both in Ukraine and in the world. After all, children rarely receive such complex beatings. In addition, special equipment for such operations in children is not available in every medical institution. Despite this, over the past year Lviv doctors managed to successfully operate on five children with similar injuries.
Andriy is feeling better every day. He is already at home. In a month or two, the boy will return to Lviv to have the stents removed by specialists.