mumbai neha appears frail for her 12 months but her mother chetna bamne hasnt been this happy about her toddlers health before doctors at the wockhardt hospital mulund have just plugged the hole in nehas heart and the prognosis appears healthybut the deogad farming family only vaguely knows the role of a yellow cylinder in their daughters resuscitation the cylinder containing nitric oxide no played as large a role as mondays surgery in stablising neha say her doctorsnootherwise associated with explosiveshas of late been playing a therapeutic role in city hospitals in surya pediatric hospital in santa cruz 14 newborns have been saved with no says paediatrician bhupinder avasthino is considered a miracle compound these days adds dr avasthi who started using it three years ago after acquiring a special licence from the explosives division of the union government to import the gas no is an active compound in dynamites which was the moneyspinning discovery of alfred nobel the white blood cells produce it to kill bacteria or parasites of late it has been playing a great role as a signaling molecule it causes the release of chemicals that relax muscles in the blood vessel thus reducing pressure born in wanivade hamlet of deogad sindhudurg district nehas heart problem wasnt detected until recently there was a large opening between two vessels of her heartthe aorta and the pulmonary artery this resulted in the enlargement of the heart and a significant increase in her lung pressure says dr snehal kulkarni chief of paediatric cardiology at the hospital the condition aortopulmonary windowis best fixed within a month or two after birth but we never realised neha had a problem until her cough and cold complaints became frequent after her third month recalls her mother chetna doctors back home then advised an echocardiography we were directed to wadia hospital in parel where dr snehal kulkarni is also attached says nehas uncle sanjay after detecting the abnormality in nehas heart doctors prescribed a treatmentsurgery but since nehas condition had been neglected for a long time the high lung pressure made her a highrisk case for surgeryshe was hence referred to wockhardt hospital which had recently acquired the noadministration apparatus frankly without nitric oxide we would not have attempted to operate on her admits pediatric cardiologist dr swati gharekarmalathyiyertimesgroupcom