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  • 10 February, 2015
    Doctors recreate half of a baby’s heart via surgery at Delhi

    A 46 days baby from Rohtak in Haryana, whose left ventricle was not developed, got treated in Sir Ganga Ram Hospital at New Delhi. Doctors operated a rare surgery upon her to recreate half of her heart; it took 14 hours to a team of 8 doctors to perform surgery successfully.

    The doctor said usually in such cases, doctors remove the left half and a surgery is done so that right part of the heart does the work for both halves. "However, when the child grows up, the right half of the heart is unable to bear the load, and succumbs to it at the young age of 24-25," he said.

     


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