JAIPUR: Needles, knives or any such objects placed near toddlers or infants can invite an accident anytime. In such a case of carelessness of parents, Sawai Man Singh (SMS) Hospital doctors have removed a two-inch long needle, used in stitching cloths, from the left lobe of liver of a two-year-old boy, who was discharged from the hospital after seven-day stay post surgery on Thursday.
The boy was first brought to JK Lon Hospital when the thread of the needle was clearly visible in the area between left lower chest and abdomen from where the needle had entered. The parents of the boy informed the doctor that they did not know how the needle entered inside the body of the baby.
When the doctors tried to remove the needle, they only managed to take out the thread as the needle had completely moved inside the stomach area of the baby.
JK Lon Hospital referred the baby to SMS Medical College’s department of cardiothoracic surgery. The doctors locate the needle using X-ray inside the stomach. When the doctors started conducting the surgery, they did not find it in the stomach area. “On further examination, we found that the needle entered the left lower lobe of liver. The two-inch needle was one inch inside the liver. We managed to remove it, which has caused minor injury to the liver that will be healed in the next few months,” said Dr Anil Sharma, head of the department (cardiothoracic and vascular surgery), SMS Hospital.
Dr Sharma said the boy could have died had the needle pierced the aorta, inferior vena cava, which is an important vein supplying blood from the lower trunk, abdomen and lower limbs to the right atrium of the heart.
