• A 34-year-old woman in Abu Dhabi was diagnosed with pituitary adenoma at LLH Hospital.
  • The doctors at the hospital had found bleeding in the tumour and advised for a surgery.
  • As the patient was seven months pregnant, doctors at LLH Hospital did not take the risk to perform such a complicated surgery.
  • They referred the case to Rockland Hospital, Qutab in New Delhi, India.
  • At Rockland Hospital, the team of expert surgeons removed the tumour through her nose by the procedure of sublabialtrans sphenoidal pituitary tumour decompression.
  • While the tumor was being removed, the team of gynecologist and pediatrician saved her baby by performing an emergency caesarian section.
  • The two surgeries saved both the mother and the child.

 

Source: ANI