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Goa Medical College and hospital doctors do rare heart surgery at the age of 9 months, save life

Panaji: A nine-month-old baby gets a new rental of life after a doctor at Goa Medical College (GMC) and the hospital performs a critical procedure to close the hole between the two main blood vessels that lead to the heart.
Baby girls are born with congenital heart problems, patent ductus arteriosus, and rushed to GMC with heart failure and pneumonia.
Doctors from the cardiology department say that open heart surgery is usually done to repair defects, but given the risks, cardiologists choose non-invasive procedures called percutaneous closure.
The rare achievement was carried out by the Head of the Acting Department of Cardiology, Dr.
Manjunath Desai, along with Parab cardiologists and consultants Dr.
Amar Prabhudesai.
“We have succeeded in managing the procedure and closing the hole,” said Associate Professor of Cardiology Dr.
Michelle Viegas Pariab.
“The child is fine now.” GMC Dean Dr.
Shivanand Bandekar said that the child had been diagnosed with a big opening in his heart before shipping.
Ordinary care, he said, is an open heart surgery.
“What we have done our cardiology department is that it has considered children for closed techniques, which are extraordinary achievements for GMC and departments.
For poor patients, the procedure will cost around Rs 2.5-3 lakh, but it is done fully Free on GMC, “said Bandekar.
According to the Mayo Clinic, “Patent Ductus Arteriosus (PDA) is a continuous opening between the two main blood vessels that lead to the heart.
The opening (ductus arteriosus) is the normal part of the baby’s blood circulation system in the uterus which is usually closed shortly after birth .
If it remains open, it is called a patent arteriosus ductus.
“” Previously, most cases like that require open heart operation, but with technological advancements, diagnosis and therapy, we can now close most of these holes through the skin.
We call this percussion closure .
This is minimal invasive and done under mild sedation, “Prabhudesai said.
The advantage of percussion closure is that it does not leave scars and also has a faster recovery time, with patients dismissed in one or two days.
“We have several challenges during the procedure when we put the sheath or tube into the child’s foot arteries.
In 5kg children, this artery and vein are very small.
This is the main challenge,” Parab said.

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