The doctors at M. Iashvili Children’s Central Hospital successfully performed another extremely complex operation and saved the life of an 8-year-old patient. The girl was transferred to Tbilisi from Kareli hospital after she fell from a tree and suffered severe injuries from a metal spiral. “I will never forget this shocking day. When I returned home from work, I encountered a horrific scene. I saw my little girl, literally impaled on a metal spiral. Despite such severe trauma, she never lost consciousness for a moment. She kept repeating, ‘Please remove this metal from my body quickly.’ It was her strength that gave me hope to fight for her life,” recalls the young patient’s mother.
The metal spiral penetrated the girl’s upper third of the thigh. It passed through the perineal area, small pelvis, liver and kidney projection areas, and stopped at the ninth rib. The patient’s treating surgeon, Mikheil Kalatozishvili, recalls that the girl lying on the stretcher was a difficult sight to see. “We performed the surgery with 4 small incisions. The surgical manipulation proved quite challenging, but what was even more remarkable was that the metal spiral hadn’t damaged the kidney, liver, bladder, and most importantly, the arterial integrity remained intact. Together with Dr. Malkhaz Kartozia, we created a subcutaneous tunnel and removed the foreign body from the patient with maximum caution,” says pediatric surgeon Mikheil Kalatozishvili. Today, the girl has fully recovered. She has returned to her normal rhythm of life.