Yashoda Hospitals doctors save 33-year-old covid patient from limb amputation

Hyderabad: Vascular surgeons at Yashoda Hospitals have saved the limbs of a 33-year-old Covid positive patient from amputation after he developed severe blood clots in both his legs and arms. While recovering from Covid, the patient suddenly started complaining of severe pain in legs and hands and lost strength in the limbs. He was rushed […]

Hyderabad: Vascular surgeons at Yashoda Hospitals have saved the limbs of a 33-year-old Covid positive patient from amputation after he developed severe blood clots in both his legs and arms. While recovering from Covid, the patient suddenly started complaining of severe pain in legs and hands and lost strength in the limbs. He was rushed to Yashoda Hospital, Somajiguda where tests revealed there was no blood supply to his legs and left hand and the clots has almost reached to an irreversible stage of amputation.

“He was immediately taken up for an emergency surgery and the blood clots were removed from both legs and hand. Blood circulation re-started and the patient was very lucky to have his both legs and hand saved,” senior vascular and endovascular surgeon, Yashoda Hospitals, Dr. Devender Singh said.

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He pointed out that during the second wave there is a rise in Covid positive patients suffering from blood clots. In the last two weeks, already 12 such cases were operated in the hospital, he said.

Blood clotting among Covid patients involves variety of organs including lungs, heart, limbs, brain, stomach and intestine, which require urgent attention. Covid is known to produce clots and the incidence of heart attack, strokes or limb loss due to clots is on the higher side this year, he said.

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