Krasnoyarsk surgeons saved a newborn with a heart defect that is almost impossible to detect.
A newborn from Khakassia could not breathe on his own even after doctors treated the congenital infection. For a long time, it was not possible to disconnect the baby from the ventilator, and tests did not answer the question of what was preventing him from breathing. As a result, the child was sent to the Federal Center for Cardiovascular Surgery in Krasnoyarsk.
There, experts discovered a rare heart defect: pulmonary-left atrial fistula. Because of this anomaly, venous blood enters the arterial bed, reducing blood oxygen saturation. The peculiarity of the defect is that it is almost impossible to detect it in an echocardiogram. No more than a hundred similar cases have been described in the medical literature.
The surgeons closed the fistula. After the operation, the baby was returned to Avken's birthing center, and on the 19th he was released to his home.