Bengaluru: 55-year-old woman inhales sharp cloth pin while shopping, gets it removed after a month
Bengaluru: In a delicate medical case, a 55-year-old woman from Bengaluru has recovered after unknowingly inhaling a sharp metallic cloth pin that remained lodged in her lung for over a month.
The woman had placed the pin in her mouth while checking clothes in a shop. When she suddenly sneezed, the pin slipped into her airway, eventually embedding itself in the bronchus intermedius, a section of the right lung, as reported by The New Indian Express on Friday.
She later developed persistent dry cough and wheezing, but multiple hospital visits failed to identify the cause. The issue came to light only after doctors at Aster CMI Hospital conducted advanced imaging, including chest X-ray and CT scans, revealing the foreign object embedded in her lung.
Dr Sunil Kumar K, Lead Consultant – Interventional Pulmonologist at the hospital, explained that the pin’s sharp end had pierced into the lung, making removal with standard instruments risky. “The team used a Fogarty balloon to gently move it out and then pulled it out using special forceps, all done while the patient was under sedation,” TNIE quoted him as saying.
The Fogarty balloon catheter is a type of procedure that allows doctors to look inside the airways, avoiding further damage to the airway and ensuring a full recovery.
Fortunately, the woman has recovered well and was sent home in a stable condition with no breathing issues. The hospital said the case underscores the importance of early diagnosis in unusual causes of cough and to be careful about keeping sharp objects near the mouth.
Let the Truth be known. If you read VB and like VB, please be a VB Supporter and Help us deliver the Truth to one and all.
'Rear-guard action': BJP over Mamata accepting sports minister's resignation after Messi event
New Delhi (PTI): The BJP on Tuesday alleged that West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's accepting Aroop Biswas' resignation as the state sports minister is nothing but a "rear-guard action" to douse public anger over the mismanagement of football icon Lionel Messi's event last week.
BJP co-in-charge for West Bengal Amit Malviya alleged that this is also an "open confession" that the Messi event fiasco was not accidental but a government-manufactured disaster, borne out of the poor governance of Banerjee, her ministers and the state bureaucracy.
Banerjee on Tuesday accepted Biswas' resignation as the sports minister in the wake of the controversy over the mismanagement of football icon Messi's event last week, a senior leader of the ruling TMC said.
Biswas, who had written to the chief minister seeking to be relieved of his responsibilities as sports minister, will continue as a cabinet minister, retaining charge of the power department.
ALSO READ: Slain Australia beach shooting suspect native of Hyderabad: T'gana police
Reacting to the development, Malviya said in a post on X, "TMC Sports Minister Aroop Biswas resigns after the Messi fiasco and Mamata Banerjee accepts it in record time."
"Do not mistake this for accountability; this is nothing but a rear-guard action to douse public anger. anger! This is not 'Raj Dharma'," he added.
The BJP leader alleged that the incident was the outcome of "loot" of common people which is "so synonymous" with the TMC.
The incident was also the outcome of the "shameless VIP culture that TMC thrives on and deep-rooted cronyism promoted by Banerjee," he charged.
Malviya further alleged that Biswas' resignation exposes a "collective failure of Mamata Banerjee, her partisan bureaucracy, and her crony cabinet".
"This is a symbolic sacrifice, a political hoax, soon to be buried under layers of bureaucracy, with no justice, no accountability, and no remorse," the BJP leader said, adding, "No resignation will bring back the time lost, the money wasted, or the stolen chance for football lovers to witness Messi in Kolkata."
