Thiruvananthapuram, Feb 23 (PTI) A rare endoscopic procedure was successfully performed at KIMSHEALTH here to treat oesophageal shrinkage of a 53-year-old woman who suffered from throat cancer.

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“It's a delicate surgery that requires immense care,” Dr Madhu Sasidharan, gastroenterologist of KIMSHEALTH, said.

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In 2019, the woman underwent radiation but it shrunk her food pipe to shrink and prevented her from taking solid food, said a press release on Wednesday.

Later, her condition deteriorated and she couldn't even take water necessitating consumption of food through a drill in the stomach and connecting it with an artificial pipe to the intestines directly," the hospital said.

After two years, she approached KIMSHEALTH which carried out a two-hour endoscopy that widened the food-pipe.

“For two years, the patient was taking food without knowing the taste. She has now begun eating food normally,” said Dr Sasidharan.

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