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28 March 2024

Why Dubai boy's heart, brain stopped...

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By Ajanta Paul

Aadhi receiving treatment. (Supplied)

Aadhi Thoppil Fabeer was rendered clinically dead as a team of 30 doctors operated upon him for removal of tumour in the heart

The two-year-old was suffering from an extremely rare condition. Aadhi's heartbeat and brain activity was stopped for 40 minutes during the surgery.

In a surgery that lasted nine hours, Indian doctors at a Kochi hospital used deep hypothermic circulatory arrest (DHCA), a surgical technique in which the body temperature was reduced to 15 degrees C, to successfully remove a 200gm cancerous tumour that had grown inside and outside a two-year-old boy's heart.

The normal human body temperature is 37 degrees C and humans quickly die if the core body temperature drops below 22 degrees C.

Aadhi's condition was detected when he developed a fever recently.

His parents, working in Dubai for the last 10 years, took him to India in a critical condition.

The operation was conducted on Eid day and he is doing fine now. Aadhi will undergo chemotherapy course once in three weeks about 3 to 4 times.

This kind of tumour is commonly seen in reproductive organs but it is extremely rare in the heart.