Atrial Switch Operation Successfully Performed at Dr. K. M. Cherian’s Frontier Lifeline Hospital
Dr. K. M. Cherian’s Frontier Lifeline Hospital, a leading cardiac care hospital in Chennai, successfully performed an Atrial Switch Operation, on a fourteen year old boy, brought to Chennai from Baroda by the sisters of Missionaries of Charity. The surgery was successfully performed on July 14, 2009.
Chennai, India, July 31, 2009 --(PR.com)-- The boy, Anil James Vanker, was born in 1995 as a ‘blue baby’ with a cyanotic congenital heart disease. He was abandoned as a new-born at the Missionaries of Charity in Baroda. Six years back, in the year 2003, the sisters took him to the Baroda Heart Institute and presented his case. The doctors there diagnosed that he had a Transposition of Great Vessels (TGV).
In a normal person, oxygen-poor (blue) blood returns to the right atrium from the body, travels to the right ventricle, and then is pumped through the pulmonary artery into the lungs where it receives oxygen. Oxygen-rich (red) blood returns to the left atrium from the lungs, passes into the left ventricle, and then is pumped through the aorta out to the body.
Babies born with TGV are cyanotic (with bluish color of skin, lips, and nail beds) shortly after birth because aorta arises from the right ventricle and carries blood with low oxygen content to the body. Two normal connections in the newborn heart and blood vessels help some "red blood" and "blue blood" to mix, keeping babies alive.
Ultimately, surgery is required in order for enough red blood to circulate through the body. The type of surgery performed depends upon a number of factors including the age of the child, the child's general state of health and the exact nature of the heart defect.
Says Dr. Ravi Agarwal, Pediatric Cardiac Surgeon at Dr. K. M. Cherian’s Frontier Lifeline Hospital, “Normally, babies with transposition of great arteries are diagnosed at the prenatal stage or shortly after birth and corrective surgery is done by the time the child is 3 weeks to 3 months old. In this particular case, the problem was not diagnosed at an early stage and it is very rare that the patient has survived for this long.”
After a recent check up, the doctors at the Baroda Heart Institute advised the sisters of the Missionaries of Charity to take the boy to Dr. K. M. Cherian’s Frontier Lifeline Hospital in Chennai for treatment.
During the operation, there was constant monitoring and maintenance of vital parameters. Post operation, the recovery was very fast and the boy was discharged on the sixth post-operative day.
Anil has completely recovered and is currently staying with the sisters at the Missionaries of Charity home at Saidapet.
About Dr. K. M. Cherian’s Frontier Lifeline Hospital:
Dr. K. M. Cherian’s Frontier Lifeline Hospital is a hospital that believes in human ethics, transparency & quality cardiac care with international standards. Frontier Lifeline offers amenities in cardiac diagnosis, treatment, research and education at a reasonable cost with round-the-clock individual care. With ‘Service before Self’ as a guiding motto, the hospital has a spectrum of a skilled team comprising of sincere and dedicated doctors, cardiac surgeons, nurses and paramedical staff. Applying advanced technology, the latest equipment, progressive healthcare and research, new avenues open out a kaleidoscope of life-saving and cost effective solutions to numerous heart diseases.
Covering every aspect of heart care, Frontier Lifeline runs the gamut of cardiac care with cardiothoracic surgery, Adult cardiology, Pediatric cardiology, Cardiac anesthesiology, Transfusion medicine and a dedicated teaching faculty. For more information, logon to http://www.frontierlifeline.com/.
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In a normal person, oxygen-poor (blue) blood returns to the right atrium from the body, travels to the right ventricle, and then is pumped through the pulmonary artery into the lungs where it receives oxygen. Oxygen-rich (red) blood returns to the left atrium from the lungs, passes into the left ventricle, and then is pumped through the aorta out to the body.
Babies born with TGV are cyanotic (with bluish color of skin, lips, and nail beds) shortly after birth because aorta arises from the right ventricle and carries blood with low oxygen content to the body. Two normal connections in the newborn heart and blood vessels help some "red blood" and "blue blood" to mix, keeping babies alive.
Ultimately, surgery is required in order for enough red blood to circulate through the body. The type of surgery performed depends upon a number of factors including the age of the child, the child's general state of health and the exact nature of the heart defect.
Says Dr. Ravi Agarwal, Pediatric Cardiac Surgeon at Dr. K. M. Cherian’s Frontier Lifeline Hospital, “Normally, babies with transposition of great arteries are diagnosed at the prenatal stage or shortly after birth and corrective surgery is done by the time the child is 3 weeks to 3 months old. In this particular case, the problem was not diagnosed at an early stage and it is very rare that the patient has survived for this long.”
After a recent check up, the doctors at the Baroda Heart Institute advised the sisters of the Missionaries of Charity to take the boy to Dr. K. M. Cherian’s Frontier Lifeline Hospital in Chennai for treatment.
During the operation, there was constant monitoring and maintenance of vital parameters. Post operation, the recovery was very fast and the boy was discharged on the sixth post-operative day.
Anil has completely recovered and is currently staying with the sisters at the Missionaries of Charity home at Saidapet.
About Dr. K. M. Cherian’s Frontier Lifeline Hospital:
Dr. K. M. Cherian’s Frontier Lifeline Hospital is a hospital that believes in human ethics, transparency & quality cardiac care with international standards. Frontier Lifeline offers amenities in cardiac diagnosis, treatment, research and education at a reasonable cost with round-the-clock individual care. With ‘Service before Self’ as a guiding motto, the hospital has a spectrum of a skilled team comprising of sincere and dedicated doctors, cardiac surgeons, nurses and paramedical staff. Applying advanced technology, the latest equipment, progressive healthcare and research, new avenues open out a kaleidoscope of life-saving and cost effective solutions to numerous heart diseases.
Covering every aspect of heart care, Frontier Lifeline runs the gamut of cardiac care with cardiothoracic surgery, Adult cardiology, Pediatric cardiology, Cardiac anesthesiology, Transfusion medicine and a dedicated teaching faculty. For more information, logon to http://www.frontierlifeline.com/.
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