Dr. Snehal Kulkarni

Dr. Snehal Kulkarni, Pediatric Cardiologist of Wockhardt Hospital in Mumbai comes on a regular basis to examine and conduct ECHO studies for our Heart Disease patients.

Of these ECHO studies were done in 92 Children, some at Gram Seva Trust Hospital by Dr. Snehal Kulkarni, Pediatric Cardiologist of Wockhardt Hospital in Mumbai and some at Surat cardiac Hospital.Congenital Heart Disease was detected in 40 and Rheumatic Heart Disease in 19 Children.Of these, 37 were advised surgery & 3 are being followed up for future surgery.Surgery was facilitated at Cardiac Centers of Surat and Mumbai for 16 children.

Present at the occasion Dr. Snehal Kulkarni, Pediatric Cardiologist, Wockhardt Hospitals said, "In India, over 2.5 million children are born with heart defects every year and many lives are lost due to lack of proper infrastructure, awareness, and poor planning at time of birth.

Of these ECHO was done in 92 Children some at Gram Seva Trust Hospital by Dr. Snehal Kulkarni, Pediatric Cardiologist of Wockhardt Hospital in Mumbai and some at Surat Cardiac Institute.

* Dr. Snehal Kulkarni, Pediatric cardiologist from Wockhardt Hospital, Mumbai Visited Gram Seva Hospital.

Of these, 186 children were given the needed eye glasses and 53 children were called for cardiac consultation by Dr. Ratna Magotra, pediatric heart surgeon & Dr. Snehal Kulkarni, pediatric cardiologist.

"Though the procedure is common, it is very rarely attempted on a grown-up child as the lungs would have fixed changes by then and the risks would be much higher," Snehal Kulkarni, paediatric cardiologist in the hospital, said.

Commonly, VSDs were diagnosed at birth and surgery was performed within six months or one year.Surgery on infants did not require nitric oxide back-up.In over 50 per cent of the cases involving grown-up children, surgery was ruled out, Dr. Kulkarni said.

Hole in the heart Shahbaz was born with a hole in the heart which his parents thought would `heal on its own' as the boy grew up.However, when he began going to school, he started suffering bouts of breathlessness at the slightest effort and often complained of chest pain.