Heart diseases have been a recent trend among all classes of society without any distinction.
In this scenario, there is a latest trend of heart diseases among children as well.
As there has been a significant progress in the treatment for heart related diseases for elders, the treatment techniques for children suffering from heart diseases have also progressed considerably.
The technology has progressed to the extent of detecting heart diseases of infants even when they are in their mother’s wombs. Key-hole surgeries are being done on infants only a few weeks’ old.
Paediatric Cardiology, anew section for treating heart diseases in infants, has seen a phenomenal growth in the last 10 years in Tamil Nadu.
Around 3 crores of infants are born in every year in India. 9 infants among every 100 infants are found to have heart defects in birth.
Around 1.80 lakhs of infants are born with heart problems every year. Around 60000 to 90000 of these infants are having severe heart related problems.
Around 10 years ago, one could count child heart diseases specialists by fingers. So the treatment was also scarce.
However, there has been a phenomenal growth in this medical wing in treatment and technology. As a result, number of children receiving treatment and improving has also gone up.
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