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Mumbai Doctor Makes 2ndtime Entry into the Guinness Record Book
Dr Sinha's first Guinness World Record came by in the year
2005 for removing the largest fibroid weighing 3.4 kg laparoscopically
Dr Rakesh Sinha |
In one of the rarest distinctions ever witnessed at the Guinness
World Records for Medicine, Indian gynecologist and laparoscopic surgeon Dr
Rakesh Sinha created history with a second time world record by excising a multiple
fibroid uterus weighing a mighty 4.1 kg through laparoscopic hysterectomy at
the Mumbai's BEAMS Hospital last month.
Dr Sinha broke the earlier record of two US-based doctors for laparoscopically
removing a uterus weighing 3.2 kg. Dr Sinha's first Guinness World Record came
by in the year 2005 for removing the largest fibroid weighing 3.4 kg laparoscopically.
Weighing almost 55 times more than the normal uterus and heavier than the average
weight of a newborn baby, the uterus measured 27cm x 18cm x 21cm with multiple
fibroids calling for immediate hysterectomy (removal of the uterus), which Dr
Sinha along with Dr Chaitali Mahajan and their team performed with the record
breaking minimally invasive key-hole (laparoscopy) procedure. The procedure
lasted for four hours and 15 minutes. The patient, a 44-year-old Mumbai-based
professional, lost only about 350 ml of blood and was discharged without pain
within 48 hours.
The surgery was performed on September 21, 2009 and Dr Sinha received the Guinness
Record certification on 21st October, 2009. "It is a matter of great pride
that we could perform this surgery and it is a clear signal to the world that
medical expertise is of the highest standards in India," said Dr Sinha,
founder-director of Bombay Endoscopy Academy and Centre for Minimally Invasive
Surgery (BEAMS) Hospital, a super-specialty hospital for women. Beams regularly
treates patients from the US, the UK, the Middle East, Singapore, Kenya and
other countries.
Although laparoscopic hysterectomy is now recognised as a
good alternative to conventional open hysterectomy, world over, the main barrier
to this procedure is the availability of expert doctors who undertake the high
skill procedure. Statistics suggest that in the United States, approximately
10 - 20 per cent of the estimated six lakh hysterectomies annually are performed
laparoscopically. Worldwide, two million women undergo hysterectomy annually.
| Uterine fibroids are essentially non-malignant tumors
in the uterus. Nearly 25 per cent of women around the world between the
age group of 30 to 40 years have fibroids in the uterus. About 30 percent
of all cases of uterus removal are due to fibroid formation. Besides the
discomfort, excessive bleeding and pain associated with fibroids, the greatest
trauma of having a fibroid is that it can hamper pregnancy and child birth.
Fibroids do not respond to medical drugs and require surgical intervention
if they cause symptoms or grow abnormally. The availability of minimally
invasive techniques like laparoscopy make fibroid management easier |
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