Thane, Sep 28 : A newborn, diagnosed with a severe congenital heart disease, successfully underwent a complex heart procedure at the Apollo Hospitals Navi Mumbai, a release said today.
The Hospital told that the 15-day-old baby Dianna was born on 28 July in Mauritius and was diagnosed with valvular pulmonary atresia, a defect of the heart found at birth where the valve that controls blood flow from the heart to the lungs doesn’t open at all.
With the help of the government and a local doctor, she was brought to Mumbai on 12 August.
Before starting the procedure, baby Dianna developed a severe Cardiac arrest, which needed immediate shock treatment (4 to 6 shocks were delivered) with multiple emergency cardiac medicines.
Dr Bhushan Chavan, Consultant, Interventional Paediatric Cardiology, Apollo Hospitals Navi Mumbai, explains, “Dianna was referred for further clinical management by a flight to Apollo Hospitals, Navi Mumbai, by the Mauritius government. The condition of Baby Dianna was grim, with no response to these treatments, so temporary pacemaker was inserted as a last resort and kept the heart beating , at the rate of 150/min. CPR was still continued and the procedure was abandoned.”
Once Baby Dianna was stabilised, Dr Bhushan went ahead with the interventional procedure, perforation and balloon pulmonary valvotomy (widening of a narrowed pulmonary valve by using a balloon catheter inside the valve) was performed to open up the defective pulmonary valve that had caused the cardiac arrest in the first place.
In the last 16 months, Apollo Hospitals, Navi Mumbai has treated over 60 children from Mauritius.(UNI)