Daijiworld Media Network – Mangalore (KD)

Mangalore, May 29: A rare disorder known as Chronic Oesophageal Pathology in a patient was cured at City Hospital Diagnostic and Research Centre here recently with the help of surgery.

The press release from the hospital said that a 67-year-old retired teacher from the city was suffering from Chronic Oesophageal Pathology, a condition where one suffers from abdominal.  The patient was also ailing with swallowing disorder.

Having been affected severely by this, the patient approached Dr Roshan Shetty, head of Minimal access surgery and Gastroenterology department at the City Hospital

Though the patient had earlier had contacted doctors in Bangalore and New Delhi seeking treatment for the disorder, all their efforts had gone in vain.  Finally Dr Roshan performed laparoscopic surgery combined with ‘Partial Fundoplication’ on the patient who is now completely cured and is relieved from the swallowing disorder.