A two-month-old baby girl from Madhya Pradesh’s Soyat Village has been detected with intraventricular Aspergillosis.
Intraventricular Aspergillosis is a fungal infection that spreads through blood and affects people suffering from low immunity or having diseases like AIDS, cancer, uncontrolled diabetes and pregnancy. A neurosurgeon at the government run Maharao Bhim Singh Hospital in Kota has claimed to detect this rare fungal infection in a two-month-old girl patient.
During a CT scan, the infant was found to be suffering from hydrocephalus. It is a condition in which a fluid accumulates in the brain, typically in young children, enlarging the head and sometimes causing brain damage. During the procedure, small webs and tiny tumors were also seen in the brain of the infant. Dr. Sachidanand Gautam also shared that when the infection acquires the form of a tumor in the brain, it can be diagnosed in a CT scan but ones the infection is submerged in the cerebrospinal fluid of the brain, and then it becomes difficult to detect the tumor.
Dr. Sachidanand Gautam reported that he will now send the findings to the international medical journals as this is the only case where infection has been reported in any live patient of a tender age of two months.
Hopefully due to the efforts of Anesthesiologists Dr. Usha Daria and Dr. Anubhav Sharma along with Dr. Gautam the infant is stable now. The doctors carried out neurosurgical and anti fungal treatments to make her health stable.
This disease is a curable disease and the girl can be cured through treatment and surgeries as per the doctors.
Earlier in 2006, a European journal had reported Intraventricular Aspergillosis being detected during the autopsy of a dead patient.
We hope that the infant gets better as soon as possible.
