Doctors at a hospital in the
southern city of Hyderabad have reportedly performed a heart surgery on a
foetus in a 25-year-old woman’s womb, local media reported on Friday.
The cardiac surgeon, Nageswara Rao,
told reporters in Hyderabad that in a medical feat, the surgery was the first
to be carried out in India.
The doctors at Care Hospital said
that they had to perform the heart surgery on the foetus to correct a serious
condition that has no cure once the baby is born.
“At 25-26 weeks, the left ventricle
started deteriorating, getting damaged and shrinking.
“We realised this is going to be a
serious condition where the left side of the heart will be too small and not
useful and it won’t be possible to perform surgery after birth,’’ Rao told the
media.
He added that they decided to go for
the procedure called “foetal aortal volvotomy’’.
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Doctors perform first heart surgery on foetus in India
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