PGI Chandigarh tallest patient ever is a cop from Jammu and Kashmir

PGIMER’S Department of Neurosurgery has treated a 35-year-old Jammu and Kashmir Police caput constable, who had reached a tallness of 7 feet 7 inches, a uncommon and utmost manifestation of acromegaly owed to uncontrolled maturation hormone secretion, the institute said.

The Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research present has successfully treated implicit 100 cases of acromegaly – a uncommon feat.

The hormone upset caused by functional pituitary adenomas, was treated done the endoscopic transnasal approach, a minimally invasive method that avoids incision connected the head.

The aesculapian installation successful a connection connected Monday said its neurosurgery team, led by doctors Rajesh Chhabra, Apinderpreet Singh, and Shilpi Bose, performed this intricate process with the enactment of a neuroanaesthesia squad led by Dr Rajeev Chauhan.

PGIMER Director Prof Vivek Lal lauded the surgery, saying, “The palmy attraction of implicit 100 analyzable pituitary tumour cases is simply a testament to the objective excellence, precision, and teamwork astatine PGIMER. These outcomes reenforce our unwavering committedness to delivering the highest modular of attraction done innovation and compassion.”

The caput constable, the PGIMER said, had been facing expanding associated pain, imaginativeness issues, and trouble with regular activities. He underwent a tumour removal via the scarless transnasal route.