{"id":17220,"date":"2022-06-13T07:08:01","date_gmt":"2022-06-13T07:08:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newswireindia.in\/index.php\/2022\/06\/13\/covid-19-infected-9-year-old-child-successfully-gets-a-heart-transplant-at-masina-heart-institute\/"},"modified":"2022-06-13T07:08:01","modified_gmt":"2022-06-13T07:08:01","slug":"covid-19-infected-9-year-old-child-successfully-gets-a-heart-transplant-at-masina-heart-institute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newswireindia.in\/index.php\/2022\/06\/13\/covid-19-infected-9-year-old-child-successfully-gets-a-heart-transplant-at-masina-heart-institute\/","title":{"rendered":"COVID-19 Infected 9-Year-Old Child successfully gets a Heart Transplant at Masina Heart Institute"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"dsprime\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"525\" height=\"394\" src=\"https:\/\/newswireindia.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Image-1-5.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"margin-bottom: 10px\" \/><\/div>\n<p><strong>Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], June 13: <\/strong>Masina Heart Institute created history by performing a successful heart transplant on a nine year old girl who was suffering from Heart Failure due to Dilated Cardiomyopathy. This surgery was conducted by a team of doctors, led by Dr. Zainulabedin Hamdulay and Dr. Vishal Pingle on 25 May 2022. A critical 5 hour long surgery, the young patient made a complete recovery and was put off ventilator on day 2. The baby girl was discharged from the Masina Heart Institute on day 10.<\/p>\n<p>Masina Heart Institute, a cardiac unit of Masina Hospital, is a renowned tertiary care multispecialty hospital in Mumbai that is known for its progressive medical treatments and cures. In this most recent case, a nine year old girl suffering from breathlessness for over a year, who required multiple admissions for breathing difficulty and loss of consciousness.<\/p>\n<p>Further investigations revealed severe Heart dysfunction with Dilated Cardiomyopathy suspecting post COVID-19 infection as a primary cause, as her COVID-19 antibodies IgG and IgM were found to be positive.<\/p>\n<p>As her condition deteriorated, she was advised a heart transplant and listed on the National List from Masina Heart Institute under the guidance of Dr. Zainulabedin Hamdulay. She got a suitable donor after a wait of six months, of a brain dead patient from Vadodara.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking about the surgery, Dr. Zainulabedin Hamdulay \u2013 Consultant Cardiothoracic Surgeon, said, \u201cWith excellent team work, the excruciating five hours of surgery, followed by post-operative management in our intensive care unit we could manage to achieve successful outcome for this young patient. Many kids who have heart transplants live a normal, healthy life once they recover from surgery.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn addition to it, I want to thank the family of the donor for saving the life of this young girl. It was certainly a very human and respectable act of theirs to donate the heart of their beloved daughter, to save another life, setting an example in the chapters of time.\u201d he further added.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Vishal Pingle \u2013 Heart &amp; Lung Transplant Surgeon said \u201cLung infection post COVID-19 is very well known. Clinicians should be aware of the COVID-19 related myocarditis and assess the patients for these complications as well so that we can identify and treat Heart Failure in its early stages.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong>Masina Heart Institute is a specialized cardiac centre at Masina Hospital that is committed in providing quality advanced cardiac care at affordable prices. The Masina Heart Institute and Hamdulay Heart Foundation also launched a Heart Failure Clinic which will provide free consultation to patients who are suffering from Heart Failure at Masina Hospital.<\/p>\n<p><em>If you have any objection to this press release content, kindly contact pr.error.rectification@gmail.com to notify us. We will respond and rectify the situation in the next 24 hours.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], June 13: Masina Heart Institute created history by performing a successful heart transplant on a nine year old girl who was suffering from Heart Failure due to Dilated Cardiomyopathy. This surgery was conducted by a team of doctors, led by Dr. Zainulabedin Hamdulay and Dr. Vishal Pingle on 25 May 2022. 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