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- A seven-month-old infant from Myanmar underwent a complex six-to-seven-hour surgery in Delhi to repair defects involving her heart, diaphragm, and chest wall.
- The child suffered from a hole in her heart, an abnormally elevated diaphragm that displaced organs, and a chest-wall deformity known as pectus excavatum.
- Surgeons from cardiac, thoracic, and plastic specialties collaborated to perform the corrective procedures in a single operation.
- The child was successfully discharged following a recovery period and remains under long-term medical follow-up.
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- Long-term cardiac, paediatric, nutritional and neurological follow-up of the patient.
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Kulbhushan Singh Dagar
neonatal
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“Review of literature showed that such a rare combination had never been addressed before”
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…abnormalities made it unsafe to perform heart surgery without first addressing the diaphragm and chest-wall defects. All three corrective procedures were therefore carried out during a six- to seven-hour operation. “ Review of literature showed that such a rare combination had never been addressed before ,” said Dr Kulbhushan Singh Dagar, neonatal and congenital heart surgeon at Max Super Speciality Hospital, Saket. The surgery involved closing the heart defect, ligating the persistent blood vessel, repairing the…
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Named India · Myanmar (Burma) · Kulbhushan Singh Dagar · Max Super Speciality Hospital · Sunil Choudhary
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