Apollo Children's Hospital successfully performed a complicated Surgery on a Five Month Old Baby
Chennai: Apollo Children’s Hospital doctors successfully saved a new born baby by performing a high-risk procedure recently. The new born baby was presented to the hospital with a very rare condition called Left Atrial Appendage Aneurysm . Left atrial appendage aneurysm (LAAA) is a rare cardiac malformation that is reported very rarely. When the five month old baby suddenly developed breathlessness her panicked parents brought her to Apollo Children’s Hospital on time. Dr CS Muthukumaran and Dr Anuradha Sridhar, Senior Interventional Paediatric Cardiologists, confirmed that the baby was suffering from this rare condition. The left atrium (the upper chamber of the heart) had developed an aneurysm, which had become so huge that it had already compressed the heart and lungs, distorting these vital organs. The baby was struggling for breath both due to heart failure and lung collapse. She was admitted pre-operatively to the cardiac ICU to stabilize the heart. Within m...
