A rare nasal surgery at a city hospital saved the eyesight of a 73-year-old woman from Kolhapur recently. Laxmi Patil (Taibai) was experiencing blurred vision in both eyes but due to the pandemic and lockdown, her family avoided taking her to the hospital. Patil was finally brought to Jaslok Hospital two weeks ago after being diagnosed with a large tumour in her brain.

“When she was brought to us, she had blurred vision in both eyes. The vision in her left eye was more compromised than the right. She also had altered behaviour. She underwent a battery of diagnostic tests which confirmed the presence of a tumour,” said Dr Sudheer Ambekar, consultant, Department of Neurosurgery. He added that the tumour was compressing the optic nerves and the pituitary gland because of which she was experiencing vision loss and altered behaviour.