PETACH TIKVAH (Arutz-7) – Israeli doctors have successfully carried out an extremely difficult open-heart operation on a premature baby weighing just two pounds.
The surgery took place at Schneider Children's Medical Centre in Petach Tikvah and succeeded in saving the baby’s life. Suffering from a congenital heart defect, the infant was one of a set of twins born a month ago in the 30th week of pregnancy.
The major arteries of the child’s heart were in the wrong place, with the right pulmonary artery rising from the aorta instead of from the major pulmonary artery.
“This condition caused a tremendous overload of blood in both lungs,” said Dr. Einat Birk, director of the Cardiology Institute at Schneider, and Dr. Michael Berant, director of the institute’s Echocardiography Unit. “The lungs slowly deteriorated, resulting in severe heart failure with the infant’s life at stake.”
The Israeli specialists carried out the operation following consultation with specialists abroad. The operation was the first time that open-heart surgery using a heart-lung machine was conducted on such a small infant in Israel. Worldwide, there have only been a handful of such cases.
The infant is recovering in the neonatal department of Schneider Hospital.
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