An open heart surgery was successfully performed on a baby weighing 900 grams at birth and suffering from a fungal mass in the right chamber at a hospital here, doctors said on Thursday. The team headed by Dr N.S. Devananda, cardiovascular surgeon of Wockhardt Hospitals, performed the nearly six-hour surgery on Jonathan, who suffered from mass flopping (fungal mass) in the right chamber, leading to obstruction of blood flow.
The doctors claimed that this was the first open heart surgery on a 900gm infant in India. "The only option available to keep the child alive who came to us about two-and-a-half-months back, was to conduct an open heart surgery," Dr Devananda said on Thursday. Jonathan was admitted to Wockhardt Hospitals on January 9, after developing breathing difficulty two weeks after birth. The baby suffered severe weight loss losing one tenth of his weight in just three weeks. He was on ventilator support and chances of survival without surgery were slim, doctors said
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