Doctors at Kauvery Hospital here have successfully treated a doctor from Visakhapatnam who had COVID-19 infection with 99% lung involvement.
A release said that though he was flown to Chennai to Kauvery Hospital in an air ambulance to initiate ECMO support, doctors here managed to treat him without the need for ECMO.
According to the hospital, the doctor, a prominent surgeon, was diagnosed with COVID-19 (Omicron variant) in the last week of January. He had a comorbidity of myasthenia gravis, an autoimmune disorder that caused fatigue and weakness in muscles, for which he was taking steroids and immunosuppressants.
