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- Rare Reconstructive Surgery performed to help the kid speak again
- Patient had lost his voice post a fall where he incurred critical injury to his head
India
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New Delhi, January 05, 2020 :
Khusanbek Ozotilla, 12 year old boy from Uzbekistan met with an accident in his home country at the age of 3, wherein he fell from his home’s terrace and suffered critical head injuries for which, he was admitted (ICU) at a city hospital in Uzbekistan and underwent a lifesaving procedure called tracheostomy (Surgical Procedure that involves creating an opening in the neck in order to place a tube into a person’s windpipe). Thereafter, the child had a permanent hole in his neck due to which he lost his ability to speak and was not able to communicate normally.
Childhood is all about talking, learning and exploring the world. However, Khusanbek was deprived of the pleasures of life as he was unable to speak. Post 10 years of not being able to communicate, Khusanbek’s mother decided to get him treated at Indraprastha Apollo Hospital. The team at Indraprastha Apollo Hospitals of Dr. Suresh Singh Naruka, Consultant, Department of ENT, Indraprastha Apollo Hospitals, along with Dr.(Prof) Ameet Kishore, Senior Consultant Surgeon, ENT, Indraprastha Apollo Hospitals and Dr. Nishant Rana Registrar, Indraprastha Apollo Hospitals recently carried out the surgery wherein the trachea of the child was reconstructed.
The child was admitted on 16th December 2019. The surgery was planned to be executed in two stages. In first stage, Patient Khusanbek’s underwent an endoscopic examination where his airway was found to be narrowed, the condition being called subglottic stenosis and a T- tube was placed in his trachea after the assessment. After examination, it was decided that line of treatment to be adopted was a reconstructive surgery to correct the narrowed airway which was technically challenging. After 7 days, the second stage surgery was conducted in which, a proper reconstruction of his windpipe was conducted successfully using a part of his rib as a graft, making his windpipe wider. The surgery was conducted smoothly without any complication. The operation enabled the closing of the opening in the neck which had been created earlier.
The child was then kept in pediatric intensive care unit (PICU) for one day under the supervision of Dr. Nameet Jerath, Senior Pediatrician, Indraprastha Apollo Hospitals. Next morning the child was removed off the ventilator and was found that the tube which he carried for 10 long years was removed.
Dr. Naruka said “Finally after a 10 years long period full of misery, suffering and living without a voice, the kid is able to speak again. The mother of child was not sure that this would ever happen. The child was discharged on 29th December, 2019 and is living a healthy life now. He has now returned happily to his home country and is leading a normal life.”
Dr. Ameet Kishore said, “We are happy that Khusanbek is able to speak now with clarity. Tracheostomy is more hazardous in children than in adults, and carries special risks in the very young. With the advancement of Technology, Procedures such as Tracheostomy have evolved and become easier to be operated on.”
