Aninilatdk

Source: http://www.newindianexpress.com/cities/chennai/Woman-with-Organs-on-Her-Opposite-Side-Delivers-4.1-kg-Baby/2014/09/16/article2433684.ece CHENNAI: A 26-year-old woman, with major visceral organs including the heart located opposite to the actual position, delivered a macrosomic baby girl weighing 4.1 kg at an urban health centre in the city on Monday. Significantly, this is the third baby for the woman. Doctors said Bhuvaneshwari (26) of Injambakkam, wife of a labourer in a steel manufacturing company, who has  congenital anomaly called Dextrocardia with Situs Inversus totalis, had a normal delivery at Sri Ramakrishna Vivekananda Health Post around 10 am. The woman’s  condition is found one in 50,000 births where organs like heart, lungs, liver and spleen are located in the reverse position in the body. Hence, unlike other delivery cases, doctors said the woman had chances of developing cardiac complications during labour or post-delivery. “In her ca...

Source: http://epaper.newindianexpress.com/c/3569023 In a rarest event, Chennai-based Fortis Center for Heart Failure & Transplantation (Fortis Malar Hospital) has successfully performed heart transplantation surgery on a 12-year-old girl hailing from Mulapet area here. The girl, Rachasiri Mahalakshmi, who underwent surgery in August, was brought to Nellore on Wendesday. Speaking to media persons, Dr. K.R. Balakrishnan, who performed the heart transplantation, said Mahalakshmi had been suffernig from a condition called 'Idiopathic dilated cardiomypathy' for the past 10 years. The problem was noticed when she was two years old. Since then, it was medically managed but in vain as her condition was started deteriorating in the last couple of years. She was eventually refereed to the Fortis hospital where doctors registered her with the Tamil Nadu government for a hart transplant, and luckily got the heart of a 23-year-old boy who was declared brain dead following a r...

Source: http://epaper.newindianexpress.com/c/3524145 The common perception about people with liver trouble is that they're either supremely unhealthy or alcoholic. But when someone like Mandolin Srinivas, who does not fall into either category, falls prey to hepatic diseases like cirrhosis, it can be quite an eye-opener. According to Dr. Mohamed Rela, one of the country's foremost experts on Liver Transplantation and surgeon at Global Health City, alcoholism and obesity aren't the largest causes of cirrhosis in India. "Fatty liver disease causes more cirrhosis than alcohol. The percentage of alcoholics developing cirrhosis is barely 10-15 per cent," he explains. Rela says that there are 15-odd metabolic conditions that can cause cirrhosis, most of which are genetic. "They can affect even children, so it's not surprising to see it present in non-alcoholic adults." Cirrhosis by itself is bad enough. But when it combines with inoperable tumours o...

In one of my previous post, i would have narrated about the odds in the transportation to cross perungalathur from tambaram, which will take atleast 40 minutes to the maximum in the weekends and about 20 to 25 mins in the normal days. The things had changed a quite bit and even a massive change. These days the traffic become normal and there is no traffic blocks wherein each vehicle will move inch by inch. There were enough policing to streamline the vehicle movement. It should be a principle and ethic in criticism that if one issue has been criticised the same amount should be congratulated and celebrated if actions or remedies had been taken. And i am recording this, after going through for the past one month that is atleast 3 weekends. The old scare was not there, atleast not as worst as before.