Medicover doctors treat child’s heart defect without open-heart surgery

Doctors at Medicover Hospitals, Financial District, successfully treated a four-year-old boy with a congenital heart defect using a minimally invasive transcatheter procedure instead of open-heart surgery. The child recovered quickly and became active within a day after the treatment.

Hyderabad: Doctors at Medicover Hospitals, Financial District, treated a 4-year-old boy suffering from a congenital heart defect without performing open-heart surgery, giving the child a new lease of life through an advanced minimally invasive procedure.

Viyaan Pujari, weighing only 11 kg, was admitted to the hospital with repeated chest infections, poor weight gain, easy fatigue, and breathing difficulty. Tests revealed Atrial Septal Defect (ASD), commonly known as a ‘hole in the heart’, a condition in which there is an abnormal opening between the upper chambers of the heart.

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Considering the child’s young age, the pediatric cardiac team opted for a Transcatheter ASD Device Closure instead of conventional open-heart surgery. The entire procedure was performed through a tiny puncture in a blood vessel in the leg, using a catheter to place a special closure device inside the heart and seal the defect, without any chest incision, Dr Amol Gupta, Pediatric Interventional Cardiologist and Fetal Cardiologist said.

The defect was successfully closed without surgery, and the child recovered quickly with minimal discomfort. He became active within a day after the procedure, doctors said.