18-year-old baby youngest patient to undergo open heart surgery
Doctors say it is a remarkable event as surgery was no guarantee to the survival of the baby, born with a rare and very serious congenital problem.
Mayank, the baby from Mathura, was born with his veins attached to his heart in abnormal positions. Almost immediately after his birth he had to be transported to Delhi for a complicated surgery.
A 10-member team led by Dr KS Iyer battled for six days to save Mayank's life.
"I called people that I am blessed with a baby boy. But in 10 minutes, things changed for this first time. Little did I know that the first time I am holding my son it will be to carry him to another hospital," Mayank's father Gopal Aggarwal told CNN-IBN.
The moment I saw that the child he was not in a good condition. I didn't want to waste a minute. We operated and what's unique is the way the sequence of events took place," Executive Director Paediatric & Congenital heart Diseases Dr KS Iyer said.
The surgery has been a success and doctors claim that by the time Mayank gets to school, he will be just like all his other his friends.
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