Recent medical advancements and availability of technical expertise have allowed the doctors to perform a challenging surgery within six hours of birth at a private hospital. The baby girl who was diagnosed through fetal echocardiography in the fifth month of pregnancy had nearly 80% blockage in the pulmonary valve and any delay in repair of the same could have cost her life. The doctors at Sir Ganga Ram Hospital (SGRH), performed this complicated surgery on a baby with a blockage in one of the heart valves.
The performing pediatric cardiac surgeon commented that, “Valve repair is done via the groin but in this case, we needed the neck vessels to do the procedure also referred to as balloon valvuloplasty. It involves inserting a thin tube with a balloon at its tip through a blood vessel to the faulty valve in the heart. The balloon is inflated to help clear the blockage.” “The outcome…
