Bhubaneswar, Feb. 28 -- Doctors at the Institute of Medical Sciences and SUM Hospital-1 here have successfully turned around the condition of a pre-term baby suffering from Duodenal Atresia, meaning a part of the duodenum was blocked with Down Syndrome.
Born at Balasore to a G2P1 mother (meaning a woman who has been pregnant twice and has carried one pregnancy to a viable gestational age) and weighing 1100 grams, the baby was received in the hospital on the 15th day after birth in a critical condition.
The baby, delivered in the seventh month of pregnancy, was earlier treated at two other hospitals where doctors treated it with IV fluids and antibiotics without any significant improvement in the condition. After evaluating the baby's cond...