A 13-year young girl from Neendakara became the youngest person in the state to undergo a bypass surgery successfully. She suffered from a rare health issue that made her undergo the surgery in Thiruvananthapuram. Last week surgeons performed the rare bypass surgery at Medical College Hospital(MCH) that gave the young girl a new life.
With the complaint of severe chest pain, the girl was admitted to MCH. She had the increased chances of heart attack that can be seen very less in children’s. initially, doctors assumed there could be a chance of a heart attack in a young girl but after getting into all the test reports, it showed negative for heart attack. Later they tested for ECG and angioplasty as she suffered from chest pain, the results showed that there are around 99% of blockage in the blood vessel, 50% blocks in the artery and there is damage to the wall of blood vessels.
Doctor’s with the team though for the stent placement through angioplasty, but it was not possible, so they finally decided for the bypass surgery. According to doctors, smoking, diabetes and blood pressure are the common reasons for Artherosclerosis but this was not the case in the young child.
Atherosclerosis is a rare disease in which plaque builds up inside arteries that carry oxygen-rich blood to the heart and other parts of the body. The other diseases could be found in children such as Takayasu that is a chronic inflammatory disease of large blood vessels, and Kawasaki is an illness that causes inflammation in blood vessels throughout the body and other inborn diseases could be a reason also. Before undergoing surgery, the biopsy was performed on a child that revealed that this was not the case of a heart attack usually found in elders.
The bypass surgery was carried out under the guidance of Dr. V Suresh Kumar of the cardiothoracic department. Dr. Krishna, Dr. Kishore, Dr. Mahesh carried out the bypass surgery with the team of assistants along with expert anesthesia doctors Dr. Gopalakrishnan, Dr. Sheela Varghese, Dr. Jayanthi and Dr. Amritha and the technicians Nishana and Anuradha.
Dr. George Koshy was the head of performing the rare bypass surgery on a young girl. After the successful surgery, she was discharged from the hospital and is doing fine in her life with getter better from bypass surgery.
“Artherosclerosis is a rare disease that affects the blood vessels of children. It is not affected because of food habits, smoking and drinking. But still, it’s an alarming fact that heart attack is becoming a common problem in younger people,” said Dr. George Koshy, professor of the cardiology department.
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