The infant was born with an inborn condition that affects normal blood flow through the heart and was admitted to the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) in the Razavi Hospital immediately.     

According to Dr Mahmoud Hosseinzadeh, a cardiovascular surgeon, who was in charge of the surgery, “the infant had been born with Infantile respiratory distress syndrome and Cyanosis (the change of body tissue color to a bluish-purple) and received medication”.

The cardiac specialist added: “After echocardiography on the two-day infant, we decided to perform Complete Intracardiac Repair on its heart”.

“The surgery, which was successfully performed on a newborn infant, was the first of its kind in a hospital in the east of country”, continued he.

Further, the doctor said that the infant could take in the special diet and was removed from the ventilator, noting that “thanks to the round-the-clock hard work of the Anesthesia Care, cardiac surgery and NICU teams, the infant is now recovering”.