3-yr Boy with 2 Holes in Heart, Narrowed Passage Treated Successfully

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Chandigarh 12^th 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.