For the first time in the country, doctors in Hyderabad have performed heart surgery on the fetus to correct a serious condition that apparently has no cure once the baby is born. Coming as it does on the eve of World Day Fetus October 31, has given India a new reason to celebrate.
In the Care Hospital in Hyderabad, 25 years old Sirisha with her husband of 29 years, Arun, says she is happy, excited, grateful and relieved all at the same time. Arun says when they were first told that the baby had heart problems, they panicked. They were aimed at specialists in the Care Hospital, where they explained the procedure in detail and decided to go ahead with surgery.
Dr. K Nageswara Rao, pediatric cardiac surgeon who performed the procedure, said “At 25-26 weeks, the left ventricle started deteriorating, damaged or contraction. We realized that this is going to be a serious condition on the side left heart is too small and not useful and it will not be possible to perform surgery after birth. So I decided to try this procedure called fetal aorta volvotomy “.
A little over two weeks later, the baby’s weight has increased from 830 g to 1200 g. Without loss of blood and heart pumping, the activities of growth and improved heart.
