The heart surgery team of Mahatma Gandhi Hospital, Sitapura, has succeeded in giving a new life to a newborn baby by successfully removing a rare heart tumor for the first time in the country.
Dr Sunil Kaushal, Director of Pediatric Cardiac Surgery, said that when the newborn Baby of Champa, only seventeen days old and weighing only two and a half kilos, reached the emergency, his breathing was almost stopped.
His heartbeat was very fast, body was cold and BP was also very low.
Echo examination revealed that he had a very large congenital tumor in his heart.
This was obstructing the flow of blood to and from the heart. Due to this, oxygenated blood was not reaching the lungs and the left side of the heart in sufficient quantity.
This is why the child was gasping for breath. In view of the critical condition of the newborn, an emergency complex heart operation had to be done within a few hours.
Dr Kaushal said that the tumor was so big that it could be removed only by cutting it into pieces and peeling it from the inside wall of the right heart.
The operation lasted for about six hours. It took about 12 days for the child to recover fully after the operation.
The biopsy report showed that it was a rhabdomyoma type tumor which is very rare in newborns (0.05-001%) and is found in one in a million newborns.
If such a large tumor is completely removed in time, the newborn can live a normal life.
This is the first case of successful operation of heart tumor in a newborn in the country.
