Times of India covers robotic pancreatic necrosectomy in a 24-year-old college student

The Times of India featured our case of a 24-year-old who couldn’t eat for sometime( three months ) due to a pancreatic pseudocyst with walled-off necrosis compressing his stomach. Endoscopic drainage proved unsafe due to surrounding blood vessels, Dr. Manjunath Haridas and the team at Manipal Hospital Whitefield performed a robotic transgastric pancreatic necrosectomy, relieving the obstruction and restoring the patient’s ability to eat.

The standard first-line treatment, endoscopic (EUS-guided) drainage, had to be abandoned because the collection lay directly against major blood vessels. Rather than resorting to open surgery in a nutritionally depleted young patient, Dr. Manjunath Haridas performed a robotic transgastric pancreatic necrosectomy with internal drainage. A single stage surgery. The surgery went well with minimal blood and a very speedy recovery. The obstruction was relieved and the patient resumed eating within days.

The case reflects our approach at MH Surgery Clinic: endoscopy, laparoscopy, and robotics each have their place, and the right choice depends on the individual patient’s anatomy and condition.

The Times of India is India’s oldest English-language daily still in circulation, founded in 1838, and one of the most widely read English newspapers in the world, with health coverage that reaches a national audience in print and online. We’re grateful to the Times Group for sharing this story — coverage like this helps patients with similar symptoms recognise them and seek evaluation sooner.

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https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/health/24-year-old-couldnt-eat-for-three-months-as-every-meal-triggered-unbearable-pain-and-vomiting-doctors-later-found-a-hidden-pancreatic-pseudocyst/articleshow/132420515.cms