Doctors conduct open heart surgery on farmer's 10-day-old infant

A team headed by Dr Biswa Panda Paediatric Cardiac Surgeon Bai Jerbai Wadia Hospital For Children successfully carried out a highrisk openheart surgery on a 10day old infant with total anomalous pulmonary venous connection TAPVC a congenital cardiac problem that leads to breathing difficulty and low oxygen levels The child needed nearly 25 days of ventilation and critical care to get out of the lifethreatening risk and after the openheart surgery he accepted feeds and is now growing wellParenthood is blissKomal Ughade a housewife and her husband Ramchandra Ughade who is a farmer in Shahapur Thane delivered twin boys on December 1 2019 through cesarean section While one child weighed a kg another weighed two kgs However one of their kids got critical and was shifted from Shahapur to Wadia Hospital in the NICU with breathing difficult and low oxygen levels wherein he was ventilated and stabilisedDr Biswa Panda Paediatric Cardiac Surgeon Bai Jerbai Wadia Hospital For Children ldquoOn evaluating the baby via echocardiography it was revealed that the baby had a complex congenital cardiac problem known as Obstructed TAPVC total anomalous pulmonary venous connection Ten in 1000 babies have congenital heart defects and one in 1 00000 have TAPVC It can be described as a congenital heart disease affecting the pulmonary veins The pulmonary veins were connected to the right chamber of the heart instead of the left side and surgery was the only treatment for survival Also the baby was extremely weak and septic The baby displayed symptoms like breathing problems and low oxygen levels soon after birth In view of obstruction to this anomalous venous connection there was no opportunity to wait and treat the baby for sepsisrdquoFrom left The infant with the pediatric cardiac surgeon his mother and fatherHe added ldquoEmergency major openheart surgery spanning five hours corrected the babyrsquos anatomical problem and normalised the heart The pulmonary veins are reconnected to the left atrium and the atrial septal defect is closed In view of major debility and preoperative sepsis the child required nearly 25 days of ventilation and critical care to get out of lifethreatening problem Now after the openheart surgery the child is accepting feeds and is growing well The baby will be discharged soon and his family has been advised precautions like avoiding taking him to crowded places to keep infection at bayBabyrsquos father Ramchandra Ughade 28 said ldquoI am a farmer from Shahapur and my family belongs to a low socioeconomic status I have two girls and my wife Komal gave birth to the twin boys and one of them required an immediate openheart surgery and we could not afford the cost of the surgery But Wadia Hospital came forward and offered free treatment to my baby Today my family is complete owing to the limitless efforts taken by the hospital The hospitalrsquos expertise round the clock services and cutting edge technology helped save my babyrsquos liferdquoldquoThis onedayold baby was brought in the emergency at the hospital wherein the baby was given timely treatment The hospital is wellequipped and caters to the need of each and every patient The hospital works relentlessly to help patients improve their quality of life with its multidisciplinary approach The hospital aims to come up with various initiatives drives and camps for the betterment of the societyrdquo Dr Minnie Bodhanwala Chief Executive Officer of the Wadia HospitalsCatch up on all the latest Crime National International and Hatke news here Also download the new midday Android and iOS apps to get the latest updates