A seventy-year-old man had his liver removed by mistake instead of his spleen and died.

An Alabama man who was traveling with his wife in Florida and passed surgery for unexpected abdominal pain, died after Instead of the spleen, the liver was removed by mistake.

William Bryan The 70-year-old man was traveling with his wife to Walton County in northwest Florida when he began feeling ill severe pain in the left side of the abdomen and headed towards Ascension of the Sacred Heart Hospital of the Emerald Coast.

There he was advised to have his spleen removed, an operation that Brian, although reluctant to go to at the local hospital, eventually agreed to, but he died in the operating roomThis was reported by Florida media.

The intervention was performed on August 31 by the surgeon. Thomas Shaknovskyconsisted of a laparoscopic splenectomy, but A specialist removed his liver instead of his spleen and besides, he cut the artery that supplies the liverwhat led to major blood loss and death of the patient.

According to a statement from the law firm representing the family, the doctor was not immediately notified of the error and Shaknovsky identified the removal of the liver as the spleen.

Even the surgeon explained to the widow who criticized the institution that Her husband’s spleen was so diseased that it was “four times larger” than normal.

But the pathologist’s report noted that The organ removed and “labeled” as the spleen was a “visibly identifiable” liver. which was partially torn.

The widow stated in the statement:

My husband died helpless on Dr. Shaknovsky’s operating table.

And he said he didn’t want to “No one dies anymore because of their own incompetence in the hospital”»

Before his death, Brian repeatedly refused surgery. as stated in the operational report.

Actually, The man checked out and said he wanted to go to Alabama to see his doctor. after being admitted to the aforementioned Florida hospital last August.

According to the widow’s lawyers, Shakhnovsky and another doctor “persuaded” him to undergo surgery due to a problem with the spleen and was warned about “serious complications” that could have arisen if he had not had the operation.

spleen, which was never removed, He just had a small cyst, According to lawyers representing the widow.

Emerald Coast of the Sacred Heart, The nonprofit Catholic health system, which operates 140 hospitals in the United States, said it was investigating the case.

(EFE)