AIIMS Bhubaneswar treats infant’s rare lung disease
The HinduThe All India Institute of Medical Sciences-Bhubaneswar has successfully treated a 22-month-old girl suffering from Pulmonary Alveolar Proteinosis, a rare disease of the lungs, by placing her on ECMO support. As the child’s condition did not improve, she was finally referred to the Paediatrics Department of AIIMS Bhubaneswar,” hospital sources said. “After investigations, she was suspected to be suffering from pulmonary alveolar proteinosis, a rare disease in which milk-like materials get deposited in both the lungs, which the child cannot cough out,” the hospital elaborated on the child’s condition. So, an expert team of doctors was formed and the group decided to do the lung washing by placing the child on ECMO support.” The expert team worked with the help of other faculty, residents, nursing officers and support staff from the Paediatrics and Anaesthesia departments as the procedure was complicated and took the whole day to completed.
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