A 2-day-old baby with a rare brain disease underwent a complicated operation in a hospital in India. During this period, doctors injected a kind of “superglue” into the baby’s brain to help him recover.
Doctors diagnosed the baby with Galenic venous malformation (VOGM) in the 30th week of pregnancy, which is a potentially fatal brain complication. Hindus.
After the diagnosis, parents M. Thooyavan and S. Sangeetha began to contact the experts to find a hospital where they could treat their children. When no one could help, the parents contacted a surgeon in New York who had performed surgery on VOGM.
The New York surgeon asked his family to contact Srinivasan Paramasivam, head of neurovascular and internal surgery at Apollo Hospital, who had previously practiced and taught at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York.
Congenital diseases slow the blood flow from high-pressure arteries to low-pressure veins. The loss of capillaries causes blood to flow into these veins, causing them to expand.
“This forces the heart to work overtime to pump blood to other parts of the body, which will eventually lead to congestive heart failure,” said Paramasivam, a Hindu report.
He also said that this situation is rare, occurring in one out of every three million newborns. In 80-90% of cases, death is due to failure to diagnose the condition or lack of treatment.
At the 38th week of pregnancy, a cesarean section was performed and the baby was born.
The doctor performed an operation called “embolization” with the assistance of Paramasivam. The deformity was sealed with super glue, the enlarged veins disappeared, and the blood flowed normally under normal pressure. The Times of India reported.
“The glue passes through the catheter (tube) through the umbilical artery to reach the brain,” Paramasivam said, adding that complex non-invasive surgery is best performed at least six months after birth.
However, in this case, since the baby’s condition starts to deteriorate rapidly, it must be performed within 48 hours after birth. The doctor must perform the operation with extreme precision and care, because any mistake can completely damage the fragile blood vessels of a two-day-old baby.
Paramasivam said that the embolization and VOGM pacing have been implement Only a few times in the world. This is likely to be the first such case in India.
After the operation, the baby was discharged from the hospital 10 days later, and the baby did not need any further intervention. The exact date of the procedure is unclear.
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