Chongqing physician removes uncommon chest tumor in 11-hour surgical procedure, replaces affected person’s blood twice

(ECNS) — A physician in Chongqing carried out a life-saving, 11-hour operation to take away a uncommon chest tumor, throughout which the affected person misplaced greater than 10 liters of blood — sufficient to exchange his total blood quantity twice.

Professor Zhao Gaofeng, director of thoracic surgical procedure on the First Affiliated Hospital of Chongqing Medical College, led the process on a 20-centimeter mediastinal tumor that had been urgent towards the affected person’s coronary heart, lungs, and main blood vessels.

Zhao mentioned the tumor had an “extraordinarily irregular blood provide” from three uncommon arteries. “Now we have by no means seen something like this,” he added.

“It was essentially the most troublesome operation I’ve ever carried out when it comes to blood loss – presumably essentially the most difficult of its sort.”

The 50-year-old affected person, surnamed Shi, had beforehand undergone surgical procedure twice elsewhere, however docs deserted each operations due to the excessive danger of bleeding.

Shi recovered easily and has since been discharged from the hospital.

(By Zhang Jiahao)