Director tells success tale of ILDS
Source: Chronicle News Service
Imphal, April 21 2024:
With various liver-related diseases successfully treated, consequently addressing to some extent challenges faced by patients who usually seek treatment outside the state, Institute of Liver and Digestive Sciences (ILDS) has effectively placed Manipur on India's medical map.
Apart from saving patients suffering from various liver-related diseases, the institute is now capable of treating certain liver diseases previously considered incurable even in other parts of the country.
Speaking to this daily, ILDS director Dr N Suraj-kumar informed that despite the institute being in service for over a year, they had not claimed credit for any of the successfully conducted operations related to liver ailments as it was not granted registration by the competent authorities.
However, consequent to completion of the formal registration process and private hospital would be able to effectively address various health conditions related to liver diseases, he said, while informed that a stone lodged in the spleen duct of a patient was successfully removed using digital spyglass and lithotripsy process.
Previously, the institute also tasted success in treating a patient with fundal varices bleeding using endoscopic ultrasound-guided coiling and glue injection and had operated on pancreatic swelling using Hot Axios (Boston Scientific, USA), the latter marked the first successful case of its kind in the entire Northeast region, the director maintained.
Regarding the use of digital spyglass and lithotripsy, Dr Surajkumar informed that the procedure was performed on a 61-year-old woman without the need for surgery.
Due to the size of the stone, which was 2.3 centimetres in diameter, and conventional methods infeasible, the stone was extracted using digital spyglass and lithotripsy, with the endoscopic procedure leaving no visible marks on the patient's body.
Dr N Surajkumar underwent advanced endoscopic training at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard, Boston.
During this training in 2017, he also received instruction on spyglass techniques from Dr Douglass Pleskow, the inventor of spyglass.
He further explained that ILDS is a JOO-bedded hospital with 15 beds fully dedicated for GI and Liver Intensive.Care Unit (ICU) .
The institute is equipped with state-of-the-art endoscopic suites, similar to those found at Harvard.
Now, people of Manipur can avail advanced liver-related treatments locally, eliminating the need to travel outside the state, he added.