Five Stories of Tyumen Doctors Saving Lives

Tyumen doctors, despite enormous stress and pressure from both management and patients, successfully cope with their work every day. Sometimes it is a simple diagnosis, but sometimes they have to literally fight for patients« lives.

We at the editorial team deeply respect the work of our doctors, and therefore constantly tell about the most remarkable cases of saving lives. Today we have gathered five such incredible stories.

They Defeated a Brain Tumor the Size of an Egg

Vyacheslav«s parents noticed strange changes in the behavior of the 18-year-old young man: deterioration of vision, hearing, difficulty swallowing and moving. They sought help at Clinical Hospital No. 1 (OKB No. 1), and the visit to the doctors saved his life.

The young Tyumen resident was carried into the oncologist«s office in arms — the young man could not eat, drink, or even stand. Examination showed he had a brain tumor the size of a chicken egg, which was growing very deep inside, near vital parts of the organ. The hard-to-reach location made it impossible to remove it or even take a biopsy.

It was decided to treat Vyacheslav with chemotherapy. After five weeks he could already see, hear, speak, eat and move independently. After two courses of therapy, the tumor shrank by 90%. Such a result should lead to long-term remission.

Now Vyacheslav is already home. He feels well, makes plans for life and is preparing to continue his studies at a Tyumen college.

They Restored a Torn-Off Nose

And here is another story of a young man — a 20-year-old Tyumen resident was admitted to Clinical Hospital No. 3 (OKB No. 3) after a road accident. During the crash, his nose was so badly damaged that it could be called practically torn off from his face — the body part was barely held by the remnants of unruptured tissues.

At two o«clock in the morning, surgeons Adambay Razhapov and Anton Shadrin began saving the young man»s face. They managed to restore the cartilage, stitch the tissues and re-form the nasal passages. All this against the background of severe bleeding.

«In such injuries, it is very important not to waste time. The earlier the reconstruction is performed, the higher the chances of preserving tissues, restoring nasal breathing and achieving a good aesthetic result. In this case, we managed to fully restore the integrity of the nose, preserve its functions and shape,» said the ENT surgeon.

Two weeks later, the last stitches were removed from the patient. He managed to restore breathing and get his nose back. According to the health department, he is satisfied with the result of this unplanned reconstruction.

A Newborn with Multiple Defects

Sometimes it happens that a baby is born in a very serious condition — so serious that there is almost no chance of survival. This happened in one of the regions of Russia. With the congenital developmental defects diagnosed in the newborn, help could be provided in the Tyumen region. So the child ended up at Clinical Hospital No. 2 (OKB No. 2), where the necessary staff and equipment were available.

The baby had a whole host of illnesses: esophageal atresia and perforation, aspiration pneumonia, anemia and urinary tract infection. What did the doctors do? First, they performed esophageal plastic surgery, then drained the pleura in the child«s chest and performed surgery on the urogenital system.

After that, in the neonatal pathology department, under the supervision of attending physician Alyona Usacheva, the baby was treated with antibiotics and other medications. He was under constant observation by specialists.

It helped! After some time, the baby«s body grew stronger and he was discharged home.

They Saved a Child with a Rare Diagnosis

A five-year-old Tyumen girl suddenly became unwell — so she ended up in the admissions department of the children«s inpatient unit at Clinical Hospital No. 2 (OKB No. 2). Doctors quickly realized that the girl had acute renal failure, gastroenteritis caused by norovirus. The situation was compounded by the fact that the patient had a rare autoimmune disease from birth — Fisher-Evans syndrome.

Fisher-Evans syndrome is a rare autoimmune blood disease in which the immune system destroys its own cells.

Due to the severe condition, the Tyumen girl was immediately transferred to intensive care, where she was connected to a ventilator. The girl underwent several sessions of renal therapy and began to recover. Already in the hospital, doctors realized that the patient had another surprise for them.

Together with the Federal Rogachev Center, medics studied the results of the tests and realized that she did not have congenital Fisher-Evans syndrome at all — the doctors who had observed her earlier had made an incorrect diagnosis.

It turned out that all this time the girl had congenital thrombocytopenic purpura — also a rare genetically determined disease in which the body lacks an important enzyme. This led to a decrease in platelets.

Now the girl is already home — now with the correct diagnosis.

Ten Hours at the Operating Table

Some operations turn out to be very long for doctors. For example, this happened at Clinical Hospital No. 1 (OKB No. 1): surgeons had to spend 10 hours cutting out a tumor from a patient«s body.

The man went to the hospital for help because he felt strange discomfort and periodic pain in the left hypochondrium. He was examined and found to have an extremely large tumor — 25 by 27 cm — an adrenal tumor. The doctors quickly realized that surgery was unavoidable.

«The need for urgent intervention was obvious due to the very high probability of the malignant nature of the neoplasm,» explained Maxim Nikulin, a surgeon at Clinical Hospital No. 1.

The operation promised to be difficult. And so it turned out: the surgeons removed the tumor millimeter by millimeter. All this time, the stability of all body functions was maintained by the staff of the anesthesiology and intensive care department. Fortunately, everything went well — the very next day the patient was walking around the department on his own, and a week later he was sent home.

And the tumor indeed turned out to be malignant. So all this effort was not in vain.

Earlier we wrote that Tyumen doctors complained about salary cuts — some were losing up to 20,000 rubles ($217 at current rates) per month. This affected the bonus portion both in polyclinics and in inpatient units. The health department responded that the agency had not recorded a decrease in income. Moreover, according to the department, official salaries even increased — by 5%.