Birth defect in baby girl corrected

The life of a two-month-old baby girl with multiple birth defects was saved by a team of doctors recently at Manipal North Side Hospital in Malleswaram. The hospital is part of Manipal Health Systems.

The baby was born with one kidney which was further complicated by a birth defect called Pelvic-Uretric Junction Obstruction, causing kidney failure. The infant also had a condition of the windpipe called tracheomalacia and poor lung development and was malnourished.

Tracheomalacia is a condition where the trachea (windpipe) is not formed properly and is like a collapsible tube. Due to this, the child develops noisy breathing and when the child cries, it cannot breathe in air easily and consequently turns blue because of inadequate oxygen.

Anand M., consultant urologist at the hospital, who operated on the child said the procedure followed was pyeloplasty, to remove the pelvic obstruction and make the kidney function again.

The high-risk surgery was conducted by Dr. Anand with a team of paediatricians coordinated by Bhaskar Shenoy and G.K. Praksh, nephrologists.

Now the baby's one kidney is functioning normally and she has gained weight.