Sikkim Teen Girl Undergoes Surgery For Heart Ailment "Uncommon For Her Age"
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The girl was first checked at a camp organised by Fortis Gurugram in Sikkim and after initial investigations, it was found that she is suffering from a rare kind of arrythmia
A teenaged girl from Sikkim who had been suffering from a heart ailment "uncommon for her age" underwent a surgery at a private facility in Gurugram near Delhi, according to a statement from the hospital.
The girl was first checked at a camp organised by Fortis Gurugram in Sikkim and after initial investigations, it was found that she is suffering from a rare kind of arrythmia, called Junctional Tachycardia, which is very uncommon in youngsters, the hospital said.
The functionality of her heart was extremely poor as the ejection fraction, a measurement of the percentage of blood leaving the heart each time it contracts, was only 30 per cent.
She had to be admitted to local hospitals every few days leading to no personal life and forcing her to leave schooling in between, the statement said.
