By Samachar Vishesh News
Chandigarh 12th July:- A 3-year old boy has undergone a successful pediatric
cardiac surgery for two holes in heart and a narrowed passage of blood going to
lungs at a Panchkula private hospital recently.
Giving details, Dr.
Virendar Sarwal director-cardiothoracic & vascular surgery at Ojas
Hospital, who performed surgery along with his team including Dr Ajay Sinha and
Dr Praveen Nayak said that the child with congenital heart disease had two
large holes in the heart with narrowed passage taking blood to lungs and
failure to thrive. Both the holes were closed with a synthetic patch and narrowed
passage was opened and enlarged with pericardial patch. The second hole in
muscular part of septum is always difficult. But child responded to surgery
well.
Dr Sarwal further said
that considering a birth prevalence of congenital heart disease as 9/1000, the
estimated number of children born with congenital heart disease in India is
more than 200,000 per year.
Of these, about one-fifth
are likely to have serious defect, requiring an intervention in the first year
of life, he remarked.
He said that a baby's
heart begins to develop at conception, but is completely formed by eight weeks
into the pregnancy. Congenital heart defects happen during this crucial first
eight weeks of the baby's development,
Dr. Virendar Sarwal said
that specific steps must take place in order for the heart to form correctly.
Often, congenital heart defects are a result of one of these crucial steps not
happening at the right time. For example, a hole is left where a dividing wall
should have formed, or a single blood vessel is left, where two should have
been.
Meanwhile another
complicated case of 4-yr old child with hole in heart was also treated
successfully at Ojas recently.
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