On 2/20/12, Yusuf M <thegreatyusuf@gmail.com> wrote:
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> Baby Jaya's heart beats with the help of a pacemaker that was implanted 15
> MINUTES after she born
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> The name Jaya in Hindi means victorious.
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> And little Jaya Maharaj was just that, when she became one of the smallest
> recipients of a pacemaker when she was just 15 minutes old.
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> A team of doctors at Stanford University's Lucile Packard Children's
> Hospital determined the girl born nine weeks premature had only hours to
> live if they did not perform the surgery.
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> Jaya, who was diagnosed in the womb with a severe heart ailment, entered
> the world with a heart rate of 45 beats per minute. A healthy newborn
> heartbeat is 120 to 150 beats per minute.
> [image: Jaya Maharaj]
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> Miracle: Jaua Maharaj appears healthy and growing after doctors implanted a
> pacemaker in her chest when she was just 15 minutes old. Here, she is seen
> with father Kamneel Maharaj and mother Leanne Maharaj
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> 'The only way to save this baby was to deliver the baby right away and then
> the pacemaker,' said Dr. Katsuhide Maeda, the surgeon whose steady hand
> stitched the pacemaker's electrical leads to Jaya's walnut-sized heart.
> Stanford announced details of the operation this week.
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> During a routine prenatal visit, doctors told Leanne Maharaj, 26, and
> Kamneel Maharaj, 31, that their first child's heart rate was dangerously
> low.
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> They learned that their daughter suffered from congenital heart block, in
> which the mother's immune system mistakenly attacks the nerve fibers that
> cause the fetus' heart to beat.
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> The prognosis was grim: Doctors would have to induce labor and force the
> baby to be born as early as possible to correct the ailment before her
> heart failed. But Jaya grew and gained weight as her parents waited, giving
> them hope.
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> 'We were worried, but at the same time we were hopeful that she was
> fighting inside and doing the best she can,' said Kamneel Maharaj, an
> information technology manager in Silicon Valley.
> [image: Pacemaker]
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> Groundbreaking: Jaya is believed to be the smallest recipients of a
> pacemaker, the medical device that regulates heartbeats.
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> Dr. Valerie Chock, the neonatologist who counseled the couple, said
> determining when the baby should be born involves a delicate set of
> calculations. The baby should be delivered as soon as possible while still
> allowing her to gestate so her organs develop enough to support life
> outside the womb.
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> 'Unfortunately, a lot of babies in this position don't even survive
> childbirth,' Chock said.
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> The doctors settled on 31 weeks as the delivery date. About team of about
> 20 assembled to handle the complex procedure in which both speed and
> caution were essential.
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> The delivery of the 3.5-pound baby went smoothly. But Jaya's heart was
> beating so slowly that surgeon Maeda decided to open her chest immediately
> to perform the operation.
> [image: Lucile Packard Children's Hospital]
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> Miraculous: The procedure was performed at Stanford University's Lucile
> Packard Children's Hospital
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> Typically in such cases, a surgeon would connect wires attached to a
> pacemaker outside the body then perform a second surgery weeks later to
> install a permanent device. Maeda decided to tackle the more difficult
> challenge of inserting the permanent pacemaker immediately to avoid the
> second surgery. The whole process took about an hour.
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> The current pacemaker should last Jaya about 10 years, Maeda said.
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> Dr. Michael Artman, the chief pediatrician at Children's Mercy Hospital in
> Kansas City, Missouri, and a neonatal cardiologist not connected to the
> Stanford operation, described the surgery as an impressive accomplishment
> that could encourage other children's hospitals to undertake similar
> efforts.
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> 'What really distinguishes this is just the fragility of this premature
> baby and the condition in which this baby was born,' Artman said. He said
> that while inserting a pacemaker is not itself the most technically
> challenging kind of surgery, the coordination of the large team needed to
> pull off the entire procedure poses a major challenge.
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> Today, at a little less than three months old, Jaya weighs more than 8
> pounds and is thriving.
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> 'Whenever we were worried, she would kick from inside and say, "I'm here;
> I'm alive!"' Kamneel Maharaj said.
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> 'We thought maybe she was trying to tell us that everything was OK, so we
> were always hopeful.'
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