Nagpur: A rare tumor of adrenal glands detected and treated successfully in a 18-month-old girl in AIIMS.
Babies from a tribal village near Gadchiroli.
He has gained excessive weight, hair (hirsutism), and eating too much compared to his age children.
He also suffered from irritability.
The doctor detected that he had a double misfortune two very rare conditions.
First is the current condition inherited from birth called Beckwith Weidman Syndrome (BWS) which affects 1 at 13,700 newborns throughout the world.
The other is a large tumor of the adrenal gland that developed around 1 year old.
Tumor incident type from 1 in the 20 births lakh.
This results in ‘Cushing Syndrome’ which is also a very rare condition in children.
This syndrome occurs because of excessive hormones from the adrenal gland in the body.
“Given the age of the child, the effects of hormones are more produced and the size of the tumor, fairy operative management and operation are very challenging,” said the senior child doctor who Dr.
Meenakshi Girish from AIIMS.
Parents of infants belonging to low socioeconomic strata and have visited several hospitals.
On AIIMS, children receive complete maintenance free costs under the MJPJY initiative.
Dr.
Girish Team with Children Critical Care Specialist Dr.
Abhijit Chaudhary, a Pediatric Resident and Senior Anesthesia who Dr Amrusha Raipure, pediatric anesthetic experts Dr.
Bhuvaneswari B, Dr.
Sayli K and Senior Resident (Anesthesia) Dr.
Jagdish n stable children for surgery.
Pediatric surgeon Dr.
Nilesh Nagdeve and Dr.
Rafey A Rahman conducted a complex operation and cut the tumor successfully.
“In AIIMs, we have experts for child anesthesia, surgery, critical care to be seen after every aspect of the patient.
That is the main reason we can save girls who have many complications such as hypertension, “said Dr.
Nagdeve.
In these children, of course after surgery is often storm and life threatens because of electrolytic fluctuations and blood pressure.
This case managed managed and the girl was up after the right recovery.
He has begun to lose weight and even tried to walk in his first visit to AIIMS recently.
AIIMS Nagpur has a child’s ICU with advanced equipment.
Director of Major General (DR) Vibha Dutta, SM and Medical Supervisor Dr.
Manish Shrigiriwar encouraged doctors to manage and succeed in treating the challenging case.