The National Institute of Cardiovascular Diseases (NICVD) has launched Pakistan’s first pediatric cardiac electrophysiology program with a successful procedure performed on an eight-year-old boy. The child, a resident of Sukkur, had repeated attacks of accelerated bosom rates of up to 200 beats per minute. Following the procedure, the helium was permanently cured through the use of free-flowing catheters.
Media reports state that Dr. Muhammad Mohsin, assistant professor, paediatric cardiac electrophysiology, says the procedure has been successful without any complications. The children can be cured by highly specialized doctors through the use of a complex procedure called electrophysiology study and ablation. Due to a lack of paediatric electrophysiologists in Pakistan, the children were not able to receive adequate treatment.
Source: The News