Archive · 20 Aug 2026
Emergency Airway Procedure Saves 22-Year-Old Patient at KIMS Saveera
A 22-year-old man became very sick because a tumor and mucus were blocking his main breathing passage.
He was brought to KIMS Saveera Hospital unconscious.
Doctors put him on a machine to help him breathe.
Dr Yasho Vardhan Mangishetti performed a special procedure called rigid bronchoscopy.
He placed a small Y-shaped metal stent inside the airway.
The stent helped air reach both lungs again.
The patient improved quickly and no longer needed the breathing machine the next day.
He was later sent home for cancer-related follow-up care.
KIMS Saveera Hospital treated a 22-year-old man with life-threatening central airway obstruction.
The patient arrived unconscious and required mechanical ventilation.
Doctors identified a large carinal tumor and mucus blockage obstructing airflow.
Dr Yasho Vardhan Mangishetti placed a 16 × 60 mm metallic Y-stent during emergency rigid bronchoscopy.
The patient was removed from ventilator support the next day and discharged for oncological follow-up.
- Who
- A 22-year-old man was treated by Dr Yasho Vardhan Mangishetti and the KIMS Saveera Hospital team.
- What
- Doctors performed emergency rigid bronchoscopy and placed a 16 × 60 mm metallic Y-stent to reopen the central airway.
- When
- The patient was taken off mechanical ventilation the day after the procedure.
- Where
- KIMS Saveera Hospital in Anantapur, Rayalaseema.
- Why
- A large carinal tumor and mucus blockage were obstructing airflow to both lungs.
- Patient
- 22-year-old man
- Condition
- Life-threatening central airway obstruction
- Airway blockage
- Large carinal tumor and mucus
- Procedure
- Emergency rigid bronchoscopy
- Stent
- 16 × 60 mm metallic Y-stent
- Recovery
- Removed from ventilator support the following day
- Follow-up
- Discharged for oncological care