Karnataka Institute of Medical Sciences doctors have performed a rare surgery on a youth, who had inserted an electric wire in his genital organ because of difficulty in passing urine.

Disclosing this at a news conference here on Saturday, KIMS Director Dr M G Hiremath and Dr Raviraj Raikar, an urologist,  said Manjunath (25) from Dandeli, working in a private company, came to the KIMS complaining of severe bleeding while passing urine.

He admitted to having inserted an electric cable through his urinary passage around 2 am on December 27. After one hour he told his father about insertion of an electric wire through his genital organ. His father made an abortive effort to pull out the electric wire and he cut the wire which was dangling outside.

Later, Manjunath was brought to the hospital with severe bleeding while passing urine. On inquiry he told doctors that he had problems in passing urine and this prompted him to insert the wire to remove any blockage in urinary passage.

They said an X-ray was taken, which showed the wire in the urinary bladder and part of it had coiled on itself as a ball in the proximal part of urinary passage. As the wire was not seen outside and blind pulling of the tube would have done irreparable damage.

So they planned a surgery to remove the wire on January 1, 2008. Initially an attempt was made to remove it through the urinary passage using endoscope. The wire had coiled and knotted so much on itself that the attempt to remove it would have again damaged his urine passage permanently.

Hence, an endoscopic approach through a small opening in the lower part of his abdomen was
considered.

A small opening was made directly in to the bladder through the lower part of abdomen. The knot of the wire was found to be of one-and-a-half-meter length and 8 mm diameter.

They said the patient has recovered fully and has no problem in passing urine. Usually this surgery costs Rs 25,000 to RS 30,000 in private hospitals but it had been done free of cost in KIMS Hospital.

Dr Hiremath complimented Dr Raikar and Dr Ratkal for performing this rare surgery and bringing laurels to the institution.

Brain tumour

Dr Kranthikiran of Department of Neurology, KIMS said Laxmi Dodmani, a 12-year-old girl came to the hospital with complaints of headache, vomiting, deterioration of vision and double vision.

With right eye protruding, she was found to have a large brain tumour which was compressing the optic nerve (responsible for vision) and also pushing eyeball outside.

Dr Kiran performed a fronto-zygomatico-orbital craniotomy and complete tumor excision. The surgery lasted for about six hours and followed by post operative-ICU care.

Now the patient has recovered well and regained complete vision. Double vision was corrected and eye ball returned to normal position. Now the child is back  to school and normal
activity.