AIIMS conducts successful metal-free spine fixation surgery on infant
New Delhi, May 14 (PTI) A six-month-old boy has undergone a successful metal-free spine fixation surgery using a bone graft from his mother at the AIIMS here, making him the youngest in Asia to undergo such a procedure, doctors at the hospital said.
The infant was kept on a ventilator for 11 months after undergoing the 15-hour surgery on June 10 last year and was discharged on May 10, the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) said in a statement.
The child had sustained spinal cord and brachial plexus injury during normal vaginal delivery at another hospital. He weighed 4.5 kg (macrosomia) at birth, said Dr Deepak Gupta, professor of neurosurgery at AIIMS.
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