Doctors in Izhevsk performed an emergency operation and saved the life of a man whose spleen had enlarged 15 times. In this respect said At the Ministry of Health of Udmurtia.
A 30-year-old local resident was admitted to City Clinical Hospital No. 6 with complaints of spleen rupture and bleeding into the abdominal cavity. Surgeons performed emergency surgery; The operation lasted more than two hours and was successful.
“The weight of the affected organ at the time of removal was over 3 kilograms, while its normal weight is up to 200 grams. Despite the serious scope of the surgical intervention, blood loss during the operation was small,” said Valery Kazantsev, head of the surgical department.
The patient’s condition is currently satisfactory. According to doctors, he will be able to return to his normal lifestyle in the near future. Now the man will have to follow all the advice given to him, which he refused to follow a few years ago. Later, the Russian learned that he had been diagnosed with a rare genetic disease that affects one in 70 thousand people. The young man refused treatment, and in the meantime the disease progressed. Eventually, the spleen enlarged 15 times, causing it to rupture.
He was previously taken to intensive care due to a ruptured spleen. hit 15 year old Russian hockey player.