Health08.12.2023 - 15:59

Kaliningrad doctors save seven-day-old infant with heart defect

The infant was diagnosed on the fourth day of life.

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In Kaliningrad, doctors at the cardiac center performed heart surgery on a seven-day-old infant to save his life. The child was diagnosed on the fourth day of life. As it turned out, the baby had several heart defects.

As a result, an emergency operation was scheduled, which was performed by specialists of the Federal Center for High Medical Technologies.

As it was specified in the medical center, the child underwent radical correction of congenital malformation. The operation was performed on an open heart with the use of artificial blood circulation. Now the child feels well and is on the mend.

Earlier, Rostov cardiologists introduced an innovative method of treating heart block.

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