Baby with 200 gm blood clot in stomach operated successfully

Surgeons from a city hospital successfully operated on a newborn after he started bleeding profusely due to the presence of a 200 gm blood clot in his stomach. The baby was born with breathing problems and tubes were inserted in his nose to help ease the effort, but little did doctors know the real problem was a life-threatening blood clot.

A baby boy was born to Shirur-based Santosh and Shilpa Sakore at a private hospital in Bhosari. However, just two days after his birth, the boy started bleeding profusely through a tube inserted in his nose. All efforts to stop the bleeding failed. Doctors then decided to shift the baby to Jupiter Hospital in Baner.

The child was immediately admitted to the intensive care unit where doctors did a thorough check-up but failed to stop the bleeding. They were successful in stopping it only after two days.

However, after putting the baby on ventilator support and medication for nearly seven days, doctors observed that the child’s stomach appeared larger in size and perforated.

With no other option left, hospital doctors decided to conduct a stomach surgery on the baby and found the cause. A team of doctors comprising of Dr Shrinivas Tambe and paediatric surgeons Dr Pranav Jadhav and Dr Kalpesh Patil performed the surgery. During the procedure, the doctors were shocked to find that the boy’s gastrointestinal parts had blasted inside the stomach. In addition, they found a 200-gram blood and gangrene setting around the affected area. Doctors immediately removed the clot and stitched up the gastrointestinal organs, taking precautions to avoid further leakage of gastric juices and blood arriving there.

Despite these efforts, hardships for the Sakore family didn’t end here. In the next 48 hours, while on a ventilator, the baby developed pneumonia in the left lung. The clinical challenge was easily tackled by the doctors.

On the sixth day post the operation, the medical team found fungal infection in the baby's blood for which he started receiving treatment. Having shown improvement after 20 days of various efforts by the doctors, the baby was discharged from the hospital on Thursday.

Talking to Mirror about the case, Tambe said, “The boy’s condition was very delicate and such a case is very rare. With literally no information available elsewhere, our team of medical experts saved the child on the basis of experience.”

Hailing from an agrarian background, the Sakore couple are not financially strong. They were extremely thankful to the doctors for having saved the life of their first born child. The couple told Mirror, “We were scared on seeing our son bleeding through his nose and mouth. Our financial condition is not that good to ensure complete treatment of our son. The entire expenditure was borne by Jupiter Hospital. We handed over our baby to the doctors with full trust. We are really happy to see our child improve after the operation.”