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All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) doctors have performed the rarest of rare surgery on the grape-sized heart of a 28-week foetus in a time of just 90 seconds inside the womb..
Dr Mandaviya had tweeted, I congratulate the team of doctors of @AIIMS_NewDelhi for performing a successful rare procedure on grape size heart of a foetus in 90 seconds..
A team of interventional cardiologists along with doctors from the Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at AIIMS performed the procedure termed balloon dilation in the obstructed valve of the heart..
Under the procedure which was performed under the guidance of ultrasound, a needle was inserted in the heart of the foetus and then using a balloon catheter, the obstructed valve was unclogged, a senior doctor said, reported PTI...
Calling it technically challenging, Dr Subhendu Mohanty, interventional cardiologist, Sharda Hospital, Noida said that balloon valve dilatation is a cardiac catheterisation procedure where a catheter or a tube is inserted into a blood vessel in the groin and guided to the inside of the heart..
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