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Belgaum doctors remove cyst from infant's chest

Staff Correspondent

SPLENDID ACHIEVEMENT: The team of doctors at KLE Hospital which performed a open chest surgery on a 40-day baby.

Belgaum: Doctors at the city-based KLE Hospital and Medical Research Centre have performed a unique surgery upon a 40-day old baby girl.

A large life threatening mass was removed from the infant's chest by "thorascopic method". The hospital said this is the first time in the world that such a surgery has been performed.

The baby was brought to the hospital with complaints of progressively increasing difficulty in respiration and fever of 10 days duration. The baby was initially investigated in Kolhapur (Maharashtra) and found to have a large mass compressing the heart and lungs on CT scan. Parents were advised regarding the need of immediate life saving surgery and transferred to the hospital for treatment.

The "mediastina cyst" (infected thymic cyst) interfering with respiration and heart activity by compressing them calling for urgent removal by large open chest operation to prevent death. The operation was carried out through video-assisted thorascopic (vats), developed recently as an alternative to open chest surgeries as they are minimally invasive methods practised in only a few centres in the world.

The surgery was done by Vijay C. Pujar, Shimikore and Shrinivas Rao.

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