PGI docs end toddler's 20-day respiratory ordeal
Lucknow, May 19 -- Doctors at the Sanjay Gandhi Postgraduate Institute of Medical Sciences removed a long-standing foreign body lodged in the airway of a 15-month-old child from Jaunpur district, bringing relief after nearly three weeks.
According to doctors, the child was initially treated elsewhere. The symptoms failed to subside as the actual cause - a foreign object stuck in the left main bronchus - remained undiagnosed. After the child was referred to SGPGIMS, a detailed clinical evaluation and imaging raised suspicion of an airway foreign body. The medical team immediately planned an emergency bronchoscopy to prevent further complications.
A multidisciplinary doctors team removed the foreign body from the child's left bronchus. Doctors said the child showed improvement soon after the procedure, with relief from respiratory distress.htc...
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