A team of doctors in Mumbai has successfully performed a rare and complex hybrid heart surgery on a four-and-a-half-year-old girl born with a hole in her heart. Just ten days after her birth, her parents noticed her rapid breathing and rushed her to a local doctor. A 2D Echo test revealed a serious heart defect, Ventricular Septal Defect (VSD), a large and difficult-to-reach hole that was causing severe heart failure. She struggled to breathe, could not feed properly, and was failing to gain weight.
Too fragile for immediate open-heart surgery, doctors performed a temporary pulmonary artery banding procedure when she was just three-and-a-half months old at a children's hospital in Mumbai. This intervention stabilized her condition and allowed her to grow stronger. However, she continued to face challenges, unable to run or play, easily exhausted, and requiring constant care. Her parents…
