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Fortis Hospitals, Mulund Performs Complex Paediatric Surgery on Infant

Fortis Hospitals, Mulund (formerly Wockhardt Hospitals) recently performed a complex beating heart coronary artery bypass surgery on an infant. A team of cardiac experts led by Dr Suresh Joshi, Consultant Paediatric Cardiac Surgeon, Fortis Hospitals Mulund corrected a complicated and rare congenital deformity called Anomalous Left Coronary Artery From the Pulmonary Artery (ALSAPA).

"Baby Sharon was brought to us in a severe condition where she was suffering from severe breathlessness, excessive crying and was extremely feeble due to poor intake of feed. We diagnosed her with a congenital heart defect called ALCAPA, which is a rare birth malformation where the positions of the arteries are switched and the left coronary artery comes out of the pulmonary artery. It occurs in approximately in 1 in 4-5 lakh live births (0.25 - 0.5 per cent of the total birth defects) and if not treated at the appropriate time accounts for 65 - 85 per cent of deaths within first year of life from congestive cardiac failure," said Dr Suresh Joshi. At the time of birth babies born with such deformities remain active like any normal child but as the child grow the symptoms manifests into breathlessness, inactivity and weak intake of food and they grow very weak and uncontrollable.

"Usually to perform such complex surgery, heart lung machine is required which is also commonly called on-pump bypass surgery. However, in the case of baby, we performed the surgery successfully without using heart lung machine, which means, off pump coronary artery bypass graft procedure with the self equipped instruments. Off pump bypass surgery is much common in the adult procedure group, but in neonates such procedure till date is only heard off," added Dr Joshi.

EH News Bureau