For the first time in Kosovo, an endoscopy intervention has been performed at the American Hospital. The operation on a 6-year-old child, with a pathology in the sinus area, lasted about an hour and a half. The intervention, which was described as very challenging by Dr. Arsim Thaqi, was carried out on Thursday morning and ended successfully. The parents, between emotions, spoke after the operation, who expressed their gratitude to the medical staff.
Doctor Arsim Thaqi, who is an Otolaryngology specialist, talked about the details of this intervention, which, as he showed, marks a success in the Kosovar medicine.
Thaqi: The operation was performed on a six-year-old child"An operation has just ended a few minutes ago. It was performed on a six-year-old child, with a pathology in the sinus area. The pathology, more precisely, has its source from the maxillary sinus, but in this case it was an extremely large pathology, pronounced, which reached somewhere up to 10 centimeters, it reached the throat, blocking the airways of the child. The reason why the doctors had a hard time diagnosing him, was that they thought that he might have some allergies, and it took time until the diagnosis was made. Then to confirm the diagnosis, we did a magnetic resonance and it was diagnosed there," said Thaqi...
