The Rawson Hospital performed a complex surgical operation on a teenager for the first time – Diario La Provincia SJ

The first pediatric Thoracoscic Timectome was recently performed at Rawson Hospital, a very unusual intervention performed by Garrahan's Cirugia Hospital Chief, Dr. Marcelo Barrenechea, coordinated and badisted by physicians and the staff of our hospital.

The intervention was performed in a 16-year-old patient with myasthenia gravis, who did not respond to medical treatment and who, for her seizures, needed mechanical respiratory badistance . For this reason, the surgical behavior of extracting the thymus is taken, which is done by the thoracoscopic technique, a minimally invasive technique to extract the thymus without damaging the rib cage.

This type of pathology is very rare in children and because of the characteristics of the case, the derivation of the patient was very complex (usually all cases from within are referred to Garrahan Hospital for operate them) and by counting Rawson Hospital with enough infrastructure to perform the surgery, it was decided to invite the province the head of Ciruga Garrahan hospital, Dr. Marcelo Barrenechea , to order the procedure, with the coordination of Dr. Pablo Medard, Head of Pediatric Surgery at Rawson Hospital.

The surgery lasted approximately 6 hours with normal development for its complexity and the patient responded favorably, with subsequent hospitalization in intensive therapy and intermediate therapy of approximately three weeks, until reception. of the discharge. In all cases, he must follow an outpatient treatment of six months to be able to evaluate the final results of the surgery.

The importance of this intervention is that these cases are usually fatal if they are not treated, they are usually very traumatic for the patient. With a treatment like this, which leaves hardly scars on the body, the patient can aspire to a normal life, even more in a very young patient as in this case.

The performance of San Juan professionals as infrastructure technicians were up, which opens the doors to continue doing this type of surgery, bringing specialized professionals to perform the surgery and at the same time make an exchange in moving San Juan professionals to gain experience in this type of practice.

Clinical physicians of pediatricians, neurologists, anesthetists, instrumentalists, nurses, social services and pediatric psychologists, kinesilogos and administrative regions participated in the program. ;intervention.

Source: Public Health.