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<\/div>\nShe thought the pin would naturally pass through her digestive system.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
A team of doctors in Kolkata successfully removed the screw of a gold nose pin from a woman’s right lung after she accidentally inhaled it. At first, 35-year-old\u00a0Varsha Sahu\u00a0<\/b>wasn’t too concerned after inhaling a part of the nose pin that she had been wearing since her wedding 16 or 17 years ago, BBC<\/a><\/em> reported.\u00a0She thought the pin had gone into her stomach and would naturally pass through her digestive system.<\/p>\n However, things took a turn for the worse when she started facing health issues, including shortness of breath. A month after inhaling the screw, she went to a doctor complaining of a persistent cough, and pneumonia. She was first prescribed medicines which didn’t work.<\/p>\n She then consulted a pulmonologist, who conducted a CT scan and a chest X-ray. These tests revealed a small object lodged in her lung, later identified as the screw from her nose pin.<\/p>\n “I didn’t know that the screw had come loose. I was just chatting and I took a deep breath and I inhaled it. I had no idea it went into my airway. I thought it had gone into my stomach,” Ms Sahu\u00a0<\/b>told the BBC<\/a><\/em>.\u00a0<\/p>\n A pulmonologist then used a fibreoptic bronchoscope to try and dislodge the object from her lung, but he failed. The woman was then referred to\u00a0Dr Debraj Jash, a pulmonologist at Medica Superspecialty Hospital. Dr Jash mentioned that if a second bronchoscope attempt failed, they might have to resort to invasive surgery.<\/p>\n “Sometimes we get cases where dry fruits or betel nuts have gone into people’s lungs, but most such cases involve young children or elderly people above 80. A woman patient in her 30s is an exception” Dr Jash said.\u00a0“It is extremely difficult to pull out a sharp object with a regular flexible bronchoscope. The object had been in her lung for more than two weeks and tissues had already grown around it,\u201d he explained.<\/p>\n “We had to be very careful because if during extraction, the screw came in contact with the airway – which is very narrow – it could cause injury and lead to bleeding which could cause a catastrophe,’ he further added.<\/p>\n However, the second bronchoscopy performed by him was successful and the\u00a0screw was removed. He also called it an ”extremely rare case”.<\/p>\n