Apollo Hospitals recently gave a new lease of life to a two-week-old girl child by performing a life-saving ductal stenting procedure in a very small baby weighing 1.19 kg. The baby along with her mother, Revathy was brought to Apollo Children’s Hospitals in a critical condition with blueness all over the body and oxygen saturation levels at 45%.
The investigations revealed that the child had Pulmonary Atresia with ventricular septal defec. As the baby was small, a procedure was deployed where a stent was used in the closing PDA to keep it open so that the baby could survive. This procedure is done only in a few centres in the world.