Eminent surgeon urged for multi-disciplinary approach for proper treatment
Tareq Salahuddin
Dr Khademul Islam, an eminent surgeon of our country recently had been suffering from severe neck pain and radiating pain down to the left upper limb affecting mostly medial aspect of arm, forearm, little finger, index finger and around axilla for four days.The pain was so severe that even disturbed his sleep. With all contribution of analgesics (pain killers) his symptoms did not improve. The clinical symptoms and investigations co-related mostly with the C7/T1 disc prolapse. Considering the nature of the disc prolapse and not having response to conservative treatment, anterior cervical discectomy at C7/T1 level was done. The prolapsed disc was removed and the nerve was decompressed thoroughly in the left side. Dr Khademul Islam was operated by his own student Dr Syed Sayed Islam (who is a neuro-surgeon) at Apollo Hospitals Dhaka. Before the operation, Dr Khademul Islam visited many orthopaedic doctors. But he expressed with grief that no one suggested him the proper guideline for his treatment nor referred him to elsewhere. At last his student Dr Syed who worked in UK for long time suggested him for the treatment option and Dr Khadem underwent a 10 hour long operation which was successful. Dr Khademul Islam urged that we need to include multi-disciplinary approach for the diagnosis and treatment of our diseases.
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