AIIMS Patna Surgeons Remove Record 3.1 kg Spleen from 6-Year-Old

Imagine your body has a special helper organ called the spleen, which is like a filter for your blood and helps fight germs.

Sometimes, this organ can get way too big and heavy because of a rare sickness.

Doctors at a hospital in Patna, India, had to help a 6-year-old child whose spleen had grown so big it weighed as much as a big bag of sugar!

They carefully removed this giant spleen.

It was a very tricky surgery because there was a risk of too much bleeding.

But the doctors did a great job, and the child is now getting better.

This was a special surgery because it's the biggest spleen ever removed from a child in India.

Even though the spleen is important, people can live without it by taking a few extra steps to stay healthy.