Chennai: The city-based MGM Healthcare has successfully performed a complex brain surgery on a one-day old new born, that lasted five hours.
The day-old child with a huge blood clot in the brain was saved after the marathon surgery, a MGM Healthcare release said today.
Dr. L.S. Harishchandra, Consultant Neuro Surgeon, Specialist in Pediatric, Epilepsy and Movement Disorder Surgery with support from Neonatal ICU headed by Dr Binu Ninan, performed the timely intricate two-step surgical procedure on the brain of the newborn to remove the blood clot and save the child.
The day-old infant was brought to MGM Neonatal ICU from other hospital with drowsiness and was refusing any feed from the mother.
After in-depth examination and an MRI, it was identified that the child had a huge blood clot compressing the brain stem and obstructing the normal flow of fluid in the brain.
Vital functions like breathing, heartbeat, and maintaining a conscious state are controlled by the brain stem. When this part of the brain is compressed, it affects all these functions.
The immediate solution for this is to remove the clot.
Speaking about the complexities in the surgery, Dr. Harishchandra said “performing any surgery on newborns is loaded with challenges. It’s a tightrope walk between being meticulous and also being as quick as possible."
"The surgery took about 5 hours. The baby was under the excellent care of our Neonatal team during her post-operative period. It’s been few months since we performed this procedure. The baby is doing fine and is keeping up her developmental milestones", he added. (UNI)