Mumbai: Doctors save 5-month-old baby's life with his own tissue

Mumbai | Wednesday | 17th April, 2019

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UNIQUE SURGERYThe team of doctors used a unique technique known as dual pathway repair to save the boy's life When doctors take the Hippocratic oath, they vow to do everything in their power to help save a life. The doctors discovered that due to the heart condition the blood was returning from the lungs and going into the wrong atrium. Doctors of Sir HN Reliance Foundation Hospital saved the life of a labourer's five-month-old baby, who was suffering from a complex heart ailment by using the child's own tissue instead of prosthetic patches. "With the creation of dual openings by using the child's own tissues, it is likely to have a lasting result..