A man had to have 63 coins removed from his gut after swallowing them.
Remarkably, the medics managed to extract all of them via endoscopy rather than traditional surgery.
The man was admitted to the hospital with severe abdominal pain, nausea, and early satiety after swallowing the stainless-steel coins over a few days.
Early satiety is when you feel full after eating very little food.
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The patient, 36, was given mild sedation before medics used an endoscopic retrieval device with a net to remove the coins from his stomach.
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The coins had to be extracted in two sessions, as the man experienced discomfort from keeping his mouth open for so long.
In total, all the coins, which measure 22 to 25mm across, were removed from the man’s gut in under two hours.
Luckily, the only complication he’d suffered from swallowing the metal objects was “diffuse erythema with erosions” in the gastric mucosa.
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Erythema is redness caused by irritation or injury to the tissue.
Despite the large number of metal coins he’d swallowed, he’d somehow avoided perforation, impaction, bleeding, and infection.
The man was able to leave the Dr Sampurnanand Medical College in Jodhpur, India, shortly after the flawless procedure.
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The medics who carried out the procedure believe it could be the first time such a large number of coins have been removed endoscopically.
Experts say that items wider than 2cm tend to remain in the stomach, while others are eliminated naturally.
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