Chapter 734: Chapter 299: County Hospitals are not Necessarily Weak, Experts are Baffled_3
The examination this time revealed a mass growing on the right side of the patient’s kidney.
Experts must have been very excited.
They immediately performed a laparoscopic surgery on the patient, removing the suspect tumor mass.
The pathological test identified it as a teratoma.
Experts at the Provincial Children’s Hospital, full of hope, thought that they had finally found the cause of the illness and surgically removed the tumor. Surely the child’s illness should be cured by now?
According to Murphy’s Law, things tend to go wrong in the worst possible way.
The child’s mass was removed, and the biopsy results did indeed suggest a tumor. However, the child’s symptoms did not improve: the vomiting persisted, and the diarrhea continued.
Such an odd occurrence was probably a first for the expert at the Provincial Children’s Hospital.
What to do then?
Zhou Can really admired the determination of the expert at the Provincial Children’s Hospital, who, undeterred, continued to treat the patient.
Not long after the surgery, the patient began to experience symptoms such as urinary urgency, frequency, pain, and even back pain.
This meant that removing the tumor not only failed to cure the child’s illness but has also led to a host of new symptoms.
The condition was clearly worsening, with more symptoms appearing.
The family must have been having second thoughts, wondering if the expert was really capable.
The family might even suspect whether what was removed was truly a tumor. Could it be that the hospital’s expert, unable to resolve the issue, fabricated a tumor to deceive them?
Despite being a provincial level, public hospital, the family still harbored doubts.
But for the family, trusting the doctor seemed to be the only option left.
Moreover, the expert was still resolutely treating their child.
The expert conducted another abdominal X-ray for the child.
This time, a fluid level in the abdominal position was found, and after administering some castor oil, the condition seemed to improve.
After so long, there was finally a glimmer of success.
Or rather, after castor oil was given for the assorted new symptoms that had appeared post-surgery, there was a reduction in symptoms. The expert’s morale was boosted, and confidence partly restored.
The expert began to reconsider the diagnosis.
Considering the child had eaten a live fish, and that it was consumed raw, there was a considerable possibility of a parasitic infection.
Additionally, the patient’s eosinophil count was elevated.
So, the expert at the Provincial Children’s Hospital tested the patient’s stool, specifically searching for parasites.
For patients with persistent diarrhea, stool samples would certainly have been taken upon admission.
This time, the expert specifically instructed the laboratory to search the feces for parasites.
Such as eggs, parasite carcasses, and even live or larval forms.
Regrettably, despite all efforts, no parasites were found.
Diagnosis hit a dead end.
The expert had basically exhausted all the methods at their disposal, continuing the search probably wouldn’t yield any results.
Meanwhile, the patient’s condition worsened again.
Not only did the proteinuria persist, but knee and elbow joint pain also surfaced, and the urinary urgency and frequency became even more severe. Urination was required up to a hundred times a day, sometimes just a few drops, other times no more than 30ml.
Vomiting and diarrhea persisted as well.
Additionally, the patient consistently had a low-grade fever.
What was more frightening was that due to the prolonged illness and worsening condition, symptoms such as shortness of breath and palpitations appeared.
This meant that the disease had compromised heart and lung function.
If the treatment continued, the patient would likely be walking into the hospital, and then carried out wrapped in a body bag.
The expert from the Provincial Children’s Hospital had run out of tricks, unable to come up with a better solution.
Considering this was a provincial-level leading hospital, and the expert well-known, advising the patient to transfer to another hospital was embarrassing to say aloud.
However, such large hospitals have various methods for handling complex issues.
Such as hiring actors to pose as family members or relatives of patients in the same ward, pretending to take an interest in the patient’s condition, then enthusiastically suggesting to the family that this disease should not be treated here! You should go to another hospital; they specialize in treating this condition.
After hearing this, the family would certainly be persuaded.
The family would propose the transfer themselves without the hospital having to suggest it.