A five-month-old girl who was diagnosed with
a congenital heart ailment, was successfully operated upon at a
hospital in Rajahmundry. The daughter of Sreenu and Varalakshmi
from Mallepalli village in Gandepalli mandal of East Godavari District
got successfully operated upon by chief cardio-thoracic surgeon at the
GSL Medical College General Hospital Dr T Rajendra Prasad and his team
of doctors. According to doctors, the baby had developed breathing
problem a few days after her birth. "Two months after the birth, the
baby again developed difficulty in breathing, for which she was admitted
at the Government General Hospital Kakinada and was kept on ventilator
for 10 days and then got discharged," a GSL medical college release said
here today. However, since the problem persisted, the baby was
admitted to the department of paediatrics at GSL Medical College and was
diagnosed PDA (patent ductus arteriosus). The baby is recovering well
and consuming food without any difficulty.
Difficulty or inability to write a coherent text message, even in people who have no problem speaking, may become a "vital" tool in diagnosing a type of crippling stroke, according to a new research. Scientists at Henry Ford Hospital focused on a 40-year-old man visiting the metro Detroit area on business who showed signs of "dystextia," a recently coined term for incoherent text messaging that can sometimes be confused with autocorrect garble. But in his case, the man saw nothing wrong with the garble. The patient had no problem with a routine bedside test of his language abilities - including fluency of speech, reading, writing, comprehension and other factors. However, when asked to type a simple text message, he not only produced garble, but he was unable to see it as such. Despite showing only slight facial asymmetry and no other symptoms, doctors determined the man had suffered an acute ischemic stroke, in which a clot or other blockage cuts off blood supply t...
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