A team of Doctors from different specialties came together to keep the hopes of a budding dancer alive!
Kauvery Hospital's team of specialists successfully managed a case of Pyomyositis in a 10-year-old child who presented with severe and sudden life-threatening complications Chennai, 2 nd March, 2020: Kauvery Hospital, a popular leading tertiary and multi-specialty hospital in Chennai, successfully treated a complicated case of pyomyositis in a 10-year-old patient through a collaborative effort by doctors of Kauvery Hospital across departments of pediatrics, orthopedics, critical care, infectious diseases and plastic surgery. Parents of the 10-year-old aspiring dancer came all the way from Guwahati, Assam to Kauvery Hospital along with their daughter, who developed complications following treatment of her ankle sprain with an above knee plaster cast at their native town. She presented to us 7 days after application of the cast with high grade fever, excruciating pain and swelling of her right leg. Her presentation was suggestive of a deep vein thrombosis. On day 2 ...