Chandigarh 19 (22G TV) Dr Ashwani Bansal briefed media persons at Chandigarh Press Club that Kanika ,5 year old girl benefited, Free surgery under government scheme (ESI) by
Cardiac surgery team headed byEx AIIMS Dr Ashwani Bansal Cardiac Surgeon Indus Derabassi also included expert doctors like PGI trained senior anesthesia expert Dr Jogesh Agarwal, PGI trained heart surgeon Dr Ankit Singhal, another anesthesia expert Dr Arjun Joshi with dedicated ICU care specialist Dr Sidharth 10 days ago .
What in hole in heart and how it affects growth of child :-
Hole in heart (ASD) leads to swelling of heart chambers and increase in pressure of lungs. This leads to recurrent chest infections in the child with poor weight gain and growth retardation.
Child with above symptoms should be taken to specialist doctor and heart checkup should be done.
If treated early child can have normal life like any other child.
How to avoid surgery in child with hole in heart :-
Children with small hole heart with minimal symptoms can be followed with repeat echo tests. Small holes in young children can close with time and may not require surgery.
Kids with large heart hole but good margins around hole can have device placement like stenting.
What are different techniques of surgery and how to minimize scar of surgery :-
Large hole in heart with insufficient margins will always require heart surgery. There has been significant advances in techniques of heart surgery.
Heart hole surgery can be done by open old technique with full cut in chest bone, this leads to long permanent scar on front of chest.
There is another technique of giving cut under breast but this also leads to visible scar and sometimes hamper breast development.
New Transaxillary technique of heart surgery is revolutionary as there no scar is visible from front and child recovers faster with minimal pain.
