The Montpellier University Hospital announced the achievement of a world first on a 19-year-old patient. “A patient suffering from lymphedema was able to benefit from the smallest microsurgical anastomosis performed in the world so far,” says the hospital.
Lymphedema is a permanent increase in the volume of a segment of the body by accumulation of lymph due to deficiency of lymph nodes or vessels. Several hundred million people suffer from it around the world.
A young cancer patient in 2020
The patient is a 19-year-old man who presented with primary bone cancer in 2020, affecting adolescents and young adults. Despite clinical remission, he developed lymphedema of the left upper limb.
“Current recommendations concerning lymphatic anastomoses are still debated and most often use vessels of 0.3 to 0.5 mm,” explains the University Hospital, which evokes an “innovative approach, making it possible to give hope” to patients. millions of people. “Certain methods of anastomosis or lymph node transfer are controversial, particularly by the referring teams who advocate medical treatment. The medical team’s approach was to ensure the safety of this procedure at the cost of increased technicality with the need to anastomose two vessels of less than 0.1 millimeter. »
2024-03-11 15:33:52
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