Surgeons in Ghana have made it appear easy to do everything from straightforward repair surgeries to challenging transformatory ones, sometimes attempting to give natural internal organs a new lease on life.
The medical community in Ghana has recently hailed the amazing accomplishments that such successful interventions have racked up.
Three procedures—the correction of a congenital limb malformation in a five-month-old baby at the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital in Kumasi, the separation of conjoined twins at the head at the Greater Accra Regional Hospital, and the cardiac catheterization surgery on three kids with various heart complications at the University of Ghana Medical Centre (UGMC)—marked a turning point in Ghanaian medicine.
The results of these risky endeavors do not refine Ghana.
Ghanaians, who have perfected the art of using blades and needles to provide patients with comfort and hope, are at the core of these miraculous operations.
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With assistance from Global Heart Care, Prof. Nana Akyaa Yao—dubbed a "heart angel"—performed that groundbreaking treatment on the three kids—each of whom had a unique health issue—at the UGMC within two hours.
In order to detect or treat some heart diseases, including blocked arteries or irregular heartbeats, a thin, flexible tube (catheter) is passed into a blood vessel to the heart during a procedure called cardiac catheterization.
The surgeons successfully completed the treatment using the Philip Asurion 7 technology for the first time in Ghana, which necessitated that the patients, depending on their circumstances, spent a relatively small amount of time in the hospital and were released following surgery three days earlier.
Speaking about the accomplishment, Prof. Yao, the sole pediatric cardiologist in Ghana, claimed that cardiac catheterization surgery was the safest heart surgery with the fewest risks because the kid would not be cut open.
She described the surgery, which required inserting small wires into the patient's legs to access the heart through blood veins, locate the issue, and treat it.
She praised the excellent effects of this specific technique while stating that there were infrastructure and medical issues that prevented more procedures of this kind.
Dr. Dominic Konadu-Yeboah, a Senior Specialist in Trauma and Orthopaedics at the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH), oversaw a group of surgeons, anesthesiologists, pediatricians, and nurses perform a stunning six-hour operation on a five-month-old infant to correct a complicated congenital limb deformity.
Four hours after delivery, the infant who had been born by caesarean section at a district hospital was sent to the KATH because of polymelia, a condition in which extra limbs are joined to a portion of the body.
Only a few occurrences of polymelia, an uncommon limb abnormality that affects six out of every 10,000 live births, have been documented in the lower limbs. Its etiology is varied, and it can occur when identical twins fail to fully separate while developing into newborns. Pyromelia is the medical term for when the additional limbs are joined to the pelvis.
Following five months of careful planning and pre-operative testing combining Computer Tomography (CT), Magnetic Resonance, and Ultrasound The intricate surgical repair procedure, which lasted nearly six hours, was performed on February 20, 2023, after imaging (MRI), echo, and ultrasound tests to discover any other connected anomalies.
The infant was slowly recuperating as expected, according to Dr. Konadu-Yeboah, who noted that the immediate and intermediate postoperative phases had been successfully treated without issues.
To fully restore the baby's normal functioning, several small operations and surgical interventions will be made.
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