Congenital Heart Defects Information

In The Zone

by drmani February 16, 2010 Congenital Heart Disease Information

I just returned from surgery. It was the 61st operation funded by the Dr.Mani Children Heart Foundation. The patient was a 2 year old baby, who weighed just 9 kilos. The surgery lasted 4 hours. Everything else faded into the background. Two days earlier, I spent all day and night blogging and on Twitter in […]

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Smiling Little Hearts – Priyadarshini

by drmani February 6, 2010 Smiling Little Hearts

Congenital Heart Disease – Ventricular Septal Defect – Surgery sponsored by Dr.Mani Children Heart Foundation – February 2010 Not quite smiling, but then you can’t blame little PRIYADARSHINI – she’s barely two years old! The weak, malnourished girl weighed just 7 kilograms, her heart laboring under the strain of an overload of blood rushing through […]

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Smiling Little Hearts – Parveen

by drmani February 4, 2010 Smiling Little Hearts

Congenital Heart Disease – Ventricular Septal Defect – Surgery sponsored by Dr.Mani Children Heart Foundation – February 2010 When I asked the 9 year old girl to smile, she gave a wide, “toothless” grin! This was four days after she had open heart surgery to repair her Ventricular Septal Defect (VSD). Parveen lives in a […]

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Smiling Little Hearts – Rashida

by drmani February 1, 2010 Smiling Little Hearts

Congenital Heart Disease – Ventricular Septal Defect – Surgery sponsored by Dr.Mani Children Heart Foundation – February 2010 Rashida is a twelve year old seventh grade student who was diagnosed to have a hole in her heart after she fainted once at school. Her condition, a Ventricular Septal Defect (VSD), required treatment earlier in childhood […]

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Smiling Little Hearts – Shalini

by drmani January 30, 2010 Smiling Little Hearts

Congenital Heart Disease – Atrial Septal Defect – Surgery sponsored by Dr.Mani Children Heart Foundation – January 2010 This shy, quiet little girl is 5 year old Shalini, a pre-schooler from Perambalur district who was referred to us for treatment of her heart condition. Affected by a congenital heart defect called an Atrial Septal Defect […]

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Smiling Little Hearts – Gopinath

by drmani January 29, 2010 Smiling Little Hearts

Congenital Heart Disease – Atrial Septal Defect – Surgery sponsored by Dr.Mani Children Heart Foundation – January 2010 Gopinath is barely 5 years old – and a bundle of energy and excitement. He can’t sit still for a minute, and it’s hard to believe that inside his little heart is a hole that’s flooding his […]

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Wanted: Evangelists (Celebrity Optional)

by drmani December 19, 2009 Congenital Heart Disease Information

Seth Godin pre-launched his new book, LINCHPIN – in style. In the process he helped raise $100,000 for the ACUMEN fund. I’m working on my budget for the Dr.Mani Children Heart Foundation. We are likely to need $45,000 to sponsor more heart operations (between 80 and 110). Viewing these two facts together brought something into […]

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Smiling Little Hearts – Yuvaraj

by drmani June 27, 2009 Smiling Little Hearts

Congenital Heart Disease – Atrial Septal Defect – Surgery sponsored by Dr.Mani Children Heart Foundation – June 2009 This little trooper has been struggling along gamely, even though his heart showed signs of the strain it had been facing from a large hole inside it – an “Atrial Septal Defect”. Referred to us as part […]

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Smiling Little Hearts – Suganthi

by drmani June 26, 2009 Smiling Little Hearts

Congenital Heart Disease – Ventricular Septal Defect – Surgery sponsored by Dr.Mani Children Heart Foundation – June 2009 She goes to sixth grade, but has trouble climbing stairs to her classroom, because she gets out of breath. No surprise there, considering that she has had a hole in her heart, a “Ventricular Septal Defect”, for […]

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Do You Say ‘Thank You’?

by drmani April 28, 2009 Congenital Heart Disease Information

I don’t often keep copies of comments I leave on blogs, but this time something prompted me to save it to my hard drive. Glad I did, because for some reason, the comment has NOT been moderated on Kivi’s Non Profit Communication Blog – so I’ll just share my thoughts here about saying ‘Thank you’ […]

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