SKY hospital treats kid with rare heart disease
Source: Chronicle News Service
Imphal, August 02 2021:
A rare congenital heart disease in infants and children called Non-Compaction Cardiomyopathy was successfully diagnosed and treated at SKY Hospital.
The patient Shimreingam (6), s/o (L) Gonmei of Imphal East district had been having symptoms of heart failure with breathlessness, palpitation, cough and failure to thrive.
He was previously taken to various hospitals in Imphal since infancy for the above symptoms.
Although the disease was present from birth, an accurate diagnosis could not be established until he was brought to SKY Hospital on July 15,2021 .
At the time of admission, the child was in severe heart failure with gross dilatation of all four chambers of the heart, a statement issued by SKY Hospital's publicity officer-in-charge Kh Bisheshwori Devi informed.
With intensive treatment and oxygenation, the child started to eat and drink and play with toys on the bed on the fifth day of admission.
Repeat Echocardiogram (heart scan) on the seventh day of treatment showed improved heart function.
He started mobilising and was discharged on July 24.SKY Hospital chairman and chief cardiologist Dr Shyamkishore Lairikyengbam appealed to the people of Manipur to be aware of such disease with continuous symptoms and unclear diagnosis.
Any such child whose symptoms are not relieved and common diagnostic tests fail to detect the disease but the heart keeps on enlarging with worsening symptoms should be referred to a tertiary heart care centre like SKY Hospital for a thorough investigation using all modern diagnostic equipment and procedure, the release quoted the chairman as saying.