IMPHAL, January 11: For the first time in the State, Shija Hospitals and Research Institute, Langol successfully done dialysis on a one-month old baby girl weighing 2.5 kg.
According to a release of Shija Hospitals and Research Institute, the baby girl born to Soubam Manoranjan and Soubam Anita Devi from Achanbigei was admitted to the hospital after developing Acute Renal Failure. She weighed 2.5 kg when admitted and has a known case of Congenital Heart Disease (ASD & PDA) with Congestive Heart Failure.
The baby developed SIADH (Hyponatremia – with Serum Na+ – 117 mg/dL, Urea level – 63.7 mg/dL & Creatinine – 3.7 mg/dL) and it resulted into consequent seizure. She remained in Anuric Phase for more than 10 days and had to manage under Acute Kidney Injury (AKI) protocol for newborn babies.
Eventually, Serum Na+ improved but Creatinine and Urea rose upto 7.3 mg/dL and 102.8 mg/dL respectively. This prompted the baby to undergo Peritoneal Dialysis on the same day and she recovered successfully with her Creatinine level and Urea level sliding down, the release said.
The baby underwent a total of two sittings of Dialysis which helped her general condition to improve gradually. On January 4, her Creatinine level was 0.9 mg/dL and was discharged.
As per record, the dialysis on this one month old baby girl is the first ever Neonatal Dialysis done successfully done in Manipur.
The whole procedure was managed and successfully conducted by a team of Shija Hospitals’ Consultants comprising of Dr Guliver Potsangbam, Consultant Nephrologist; Dr Yaikhomba Taorem, Consultant Paediatrician & Neonatologist and Dr Khangembam Sachikumar Singh, Consultant Paediatrician & Neonatologist, it stated.