A three-year-old Pakistani boy, Mohammad Bilal, has been successfully treated for a rare heart disease at Jaypee Hospital, Noida, which was recently acclaimed for treating another Pakistani child, four-month-old Rohaan, who was also suffering from a rare congenital heart disease.
Dr. Rajesh Sharma, paediatric cardiac surgeon, said Bilal had come in with a rare cardiac disorder that is found in one among two lakh children.
Critical surgery
“There are two chambers on both sides of the human heart. Both chambers are of the same size, but in Bilal’s case the muscles of his right chamber became weak and got enlarged. Due to the increased size of the right chamber, pressure was built up on the left chamber of his heart. As a result, the child's heart was not functioning properly and the pumped blood was unable to reach the child’s lungs resulting in high risk to his life,” said Dr. Sharma.
Prolonged illness
Doctors treated the boy with Fontan Procedure and Right Ventricle Exclusion from Circulation Method. Under this procedure, the entire blue blood of the child’s body is pumped directly into his lungs through a tube and the right chamber of the heart is removed.
The critical surgery took about five hours.
“Due to prolonged illness, the child had become very weak, hence, he was kept on ventilator support for four days post the surgery. ,” read a release issued by the hospital.