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206 stones removed from man’s kidney

Medical feat: The stones were removed through keyhole surgery at the Patil Lithotripsy Centre and Endo-urology Nursing Home in Gulbarga.

GULBARGA: As many as 206 stones were removed from the left kidney of a 41-year-old man through keyhole surgery by urologist Ravindra Patil.

Dr. Patil said that the surgery employing the Percutaneous Nephrolithotomy technique was performed on February 20, putting an end to the patient Banda Nawaz’s ten-year-long suffering.

The stones in Mr. Nawaz’s left kidney were removed and the organ, which had become almost dysfunctional, was reactivated. He was discharged from hospital 48 hours after the operation.

Dr. Patil hopes to get an entry in the Guinness World Records for the medical feat. “The world record of removing the highest number (more than 130) stones of different sizes from the kidney of a patient at OPEC Hospital in Raichur a couple of years ago is held by Deepak Bolbunde, ” he said.

Dr. Bolbunde hails from Gulbarga City and did his MBBS course at Mahadevappa Rampure Medical College.

Dr. Patil too had his MBBS education at the same college and completed his MS at St. Petersburg in erstwhile USSR. He received training under Prashant Patnaik at Mumbai Hospital and under Deepak Kirpekar and Shirish Yande at KEM Hospital, Pune. He established the Patil Lithotripsy Centre and Endo-urology Nursing Home in Gulbarga in 1993.

The patient was awake throughout the three-hour-long surgery and his blood loss was minimal. He was neither given any fluids nor blood transfusion, Dr. Patil said.Mr. Nawaz, a tailor and father of three, had undergone a surgery 10 years ago in the Government General Hospital in Gulbarga to remove stones from his right kidney. He hails from Rangampet in Surpur taluk of Gulbarga district. Dr. Patil said: “Keyhole surgery is performed by making a small opening in the skin. With the help of an image intensifier guidance system, an entry is made into the affected kidney and with the help of a nephroscope, the stones are picked up one by one and removed through a port.” Dr. Patil, who introduced the Extra Corporal Shockwave Lithotripsy service in Gulbarga in 1997, had six months ago removed 119 stones from the kidney of Basamma of Kakkera village in Surpur taluk.

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