Bhubaneswar, Nov. 5 -- Doctors at SUM Hospital, Bhubaneswar, have saved a premature baby girl weighing just 1,476 grams after surgically removing her left lung affected by a congenital abnormality.
Born at 34 weeks through an emergency Caesarean section to a 28-year-old first-time mother following IVF conception, the infant was diagnosed with Congenital Pulmonary Airway Malformation (CPAM) in the left lung and right-sided pneumothorax. She required immediate intubation and mechanical ventilation.
Further investigations revealed pulmonary hypertension. On the 15th day after birth, a paediatric surgery team led by Dr Antaryami Pradhan performed a left pneumonectomy, removing both lobes of the affected lung.
The infant later developed posto...