After a 22-day-long battle, the "miracle baby" born with a protruding heart died here of "infection" even as doctors at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) fought all odds to save him.
"The baby died at 1400 hrs IST on Wednesday following severe infection and pneumonia," said cardiologist and additional professor at the cardiothoracic and vascular surgery department of AIIMS, AK Bisoi.
The boy was brought to the premier institute on August 28 by his father Chander Manjhi from Bihar after doctors in Chapra found that he was suffering from thoracic ectopia cordis, a "rarest of the rare heart defect" in which the heart is abnormally located.
The defect occurs in five to nine cases in one million births and the mortality rate is very high.
Source : IBN Health
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