MIOT Hospitals Performs World's First Cardiac Multi-Surgery on a 14-Year-old boy

MIOT Hospitals Performs World's First Cardiac Multi-Surgery on a 14-Year-old boy PR Newswire CHENNAI, August 2, 2012 CHENNAI, August 2, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- MIOT Hospitals performs successful surgery on a 14-year-old boy in Chennai who was suffering from several disorders including the breast bone pushing the whole heart to left side of the chest thereby compressing the lungs, a hole in the heart, a bulge in the heart's biggest blood vessel and a leaky valve. Case Scenario: A 14-year-old boy from Mumbai who was diagnosed with Noonan's syndrome was admitted at MIOT Hospitals, Chennai on July 14, 2012. Noonan's syndrome is an autosomal congenital disorder considered to be a type of dwarfism. The features include narrowing of heart valve, hole in the heart, depressed breast bone (pectus excavatum), webbed neck and a flat nasal bridge. It occurs 1 in 1000 child births. This boy was diagnosed to have a large hole in the heart (ASD) as a child, when was 4 years old. He was having progressive breathlessness and recently when he went for the treatment for the hole in the heart, he was found to have a large aneurysm of the aorta with leak in the aortic valve. The local doctors from Mumbai told him that it is extremely difficult to do the operation and he was advised to go abroad to get it done. This combination of aneurysm of the aorta with leak in the aortic valve and a hole in the heart has not been reported before.