A team of doctors at BLK-Max Super Speciality Hospital, here, has saved the life of a newborn boy by successfully treating him for a rare congenital heart condition.

The newborn boy had aortic stenosis (narrow heart valve), which was treated successfully using balloon dilation technique by a minimally invasive procedure. While the procedure has been performed on infants before, the condition is rare in new-borns since it is mainly age-related, making this one of the first cases in India done on a 2-day-old neonate, the doctors said. Aortic stenosis is a term used to describe congenital heart defects that obstruct blood flow from the heart to the body. Significant aortic stenosis is relatively uncommon, affecting about six of every 1,000 babies born, occurring more often in boys.