a rare surgery!

The man who clinically died for 30 minutes, but lived on

Madhavi Rajadhyaksha | TNN

Mumbai: Having every drop of blood sucked out of one’s body might sound like sci-fi. But that is what happened to Portugal resident and retired judge Antonio Soaias (77) who was rendered clinically dead for 30 minutes as he underwent complex surgery at Bombay Hospital. Soaias was holidaying in Goa but the trip was cut short when he developed an excruciating pain in his legs. His relatives took him to a Panjim hospital where scans indicated cancer of the kidney. It was only when doctors opened him up to operate on December 23 that they found a tumour stretching from his right kidney and eating into 30% of his heart. By a stroke of luck, the Goa doctor recalled similar surgery done in Bombay Hospital 15 years ago. The judge was rushed there. His blood was ‘‘cooled’’ from 37° Celsius to 17 by passing it through a heart-lung machine and removed from his body. ‘‘At that point, he is ‘clinically dead’— nothing works, not the heart, lungs or brain. A person can survive without oxygen for 45 minutes, and this surgery took 30 minutes,’’ said his surgeon Anand Somaya. The procedure, called deep hypothermia with circulatory arrest, lasted eight hours. Somaya said Soaias’s condition was among the ‘‘rarest of rare’’. Somaya’s team, which included cancer surgeon J N Kulkarni and anaesthetist Pradnya Kulkarni, then removed the tumour . It measured 17cm. Once done, it took two hours to warm the blood to 37.4 °degrees Celsius and re-start Soaias’ circulatory system. The cancer, he said, had spread from the right kidney, entered the inferior venacava and travelled through the liver into the right atrium.

SOURCE- TIMES OF INDIA, JANUARY 11,2009

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