A 25-day-old baby boy underwent a complex seven-hour surgery to rectify a rare congenital heart defect in which the left pumping chamber is severely underdeveloped at a super specialty hospital here.
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- AIIMS Cardiologists Operate on baby with Protruding Heart 2 years 23 weeks ago
Cardiologists at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences AIIMS have successfully operated upon an eight-day-old baby suffering from a rare congenital heart defect.
- Rare heart Tumour removed from infant 2 years 40 weeks ago
A three month-old-baby got a new lease of life after a rare heart tumour was successfully removed on Monday. The baby boyhad symptoms of respiratory distress when he was brought by his parents to BGS Global Hospitals. Doctors found that it was a condition called Rhabdomyoma, a disorder which if not treated can be fatal.
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Bangalore/Rare-heart-tumour-removed-f...- Infant gets new life after rare surgery 2 years 40 weeks ago
It was really disturbing moment for Lavanya and Balaji when they admitted their two-and-a-half months old baby Sriya to the Escorts Heart Institute at Malar Hospital on April 13.When the parents brought Sriya to hospital, she was not able to breathe properly, and had no arm or leg pulses. Her BP level was extremely low.
- New Technique in bypass surgery 3 years 1 hour ago
Doctors at Indraprastha Apollo hospital have used a minimally invasive technique to perform a multiple graft heart bypass surgery on a 53-year-old woman without cutting through a single bone.The new procedure, doctors claim, is less painful than conventional bypass surgery and leads to much faster healing . "This is the first time in India multiple grafts have been put, especially at the backside of the heart, through minimally invasive coronary surgery.
- Barbara Bush recovering from heart surgery 2 years 50 weeks ago
NEW YORK (WABC) -- Former First Lady Barbara Bush has undergone open heart surgery.The elder President Bush's Chief of Staff, Jean Becker, described the surgery as very routine.
Becker said she talked to Barbara Bush, 83, who is in the ICU.She described the former first lady as "alert and funny."Her husband is with her, Becker said.- Umpire Ahsan Raza still in critical condition, but improving 2 years 50 weeks ago
The condition of Ahsan Raza, the Pakistani umpire who was severely wounded during Tuesday's terror attack, is improving. Raza underwent surgery at the Services Hospital in Lahore on Tuesday to repair a collapsed right lung and damaged liver, and a hospital spokesman described the procedure as successful.
- First Baby Of New Year 2010 2 years 6 weeks ago
The first baby of 2010 was introduced in the world simply a sec aft mid-night.
The St. Michael Hospital in Down-town Toronto delivered the premier baby of the New Year but not by much, as a baby girl was also given birth to at the Mississauga’s C. Valley Hospital, merely a 3 secs aft mid-night.
- Robin Williams postpones rest of tour, to undergo heart surgery 2 years 50 weeks ago
Manic funnyman Robin Williams, who often jokes about the hard living he did in his drug-fueled youth, is having emergency heart surgery.
Williams, 57, postponed the rest of his comedy tour, "Weapons of Self Destruction," to undergo an aortic valve replacement, according to a statement posted on his website.- Model Daisy Lowe undergoes kidney surgery 2 years 1 week ago
Model Daisy Lowe has undergone kidney surgery to correct a mis-shapen tube to her bladder.The socialite has been struggling to walk after the operation at a hospital in the U.K..