Bengaluru: Three-year-old Alhasan beat cyanotic heart disease and left lower lobe pneumonia, to return home to Iraq healthy and happy recently thanks to doctors at the Institute of Women and Child Health, Sakra World Hospital.
"When the parents brought him, he had been diagnosed with cyanotic heart disease and also had left lower lobe pneumonia due to an acquired TE fistula. It was rare but we are glad the surgery was successful. The baby showed remarkable improvement and was discharged 10 days after surgery. He will now be able to lead a healthy and happy life," said Dr C Ramachandra, senior consultant and head of the department of paediatric surgery at the institute.
Alhassan was admitted a few times to various hospitals due and underwent a procedures for placing a gastrostomy tube and jejunostomy tube for nutritional purposes at a hospital in Iraq. Unfortunately both tubes had to be closed due to complications. He also had an esophageal covered stent inserted into his body at a hospital in Lebanon, but it too hard to be removed. In Bengaluru, he was admitted to the Sakra World Hospital, where he was stabilised with chest physiotherapy, nebulisation, antibiotics and medication to improve heart function and then underwent various procedures.
