Mangalore: A team of doctors attached to Indiana Hospital and Heart Institute have saved the life of a nine-year-old boy, who was suffering from Tachycardiomyopathy, a rare heart disease. Doctors treated Yadhunandan using radio frequency ablation (RFA). Yadhunandan, son of Mohan, a salesman at a private company in Dubai, is a resident of Kanhangad in Kasargod district of Kerala.

Yusuf Kumble, the chief interventional cardiologist of IHHI said Tachycardiomyopathy is found in one in every one lakh individuals. IHHI started offering RFA facility one month ago.

Explaining about the disease and the treatment, he said, “The heartbeat rate of a healthy individual is 70 per minute. But Yadhunandan’s heartbeat rate was between 200 to 300 per minute, which can cause sudden cardiac arrest. The patient stayed in the hospital for one month and was discharged on December 21. The boy has to be under medication for one year and can start playing sports after three months like any other children.”

Yadhunandan’s mother Shreekala told TOI that she had lost the hope of saving her son. “A few months ago Yadhunandan started complaining of abdominal pain and started vomiting. I am happy now because my son is fit like other children of his age,” she said.-Times of India