Surgeons at a leading government medical college and hospital in Ajmer have achieved a rare surgical milestone by successfully performing what they describe as India’s first documented surgery for trauma-induced gastric transection, an exceptionally uncommon condition in which the stomach is completely split into two parts following severe blunt abdominal trauma. Globally, this marks only the sixth reported case of such an injury caused by trauma. The life-saving procedure was led by a senior surgeon at the hospital, who explained that the 29-year-old patient sustained catastrophic abdominal injuries in an industrial accident.
A heavily loaded marble trolley went out of control and struck his abdomen with extreme force, generating intense shearing pressure that caused the stomach to transect completely a condition referred to medically as gastric transection. According to the surgical…
