Aadhi's heartbeat and brain activity was stopped for 40 minutes during this surgery . Doctors used a technique known as deep hypothermic circulatory arrest (DHCA), a surgical technique in which the body temperature was reduced to 15 degree C .The normal human body tempe rature is 37 degrees C and humans quickly die if the core body temperature drops below 22 degrees C.
"The surgery was the fifth such successful surgery performed in the world," said Dr M K Mossa Kunhi, head of department, cardiac surgery and heart transplantation, VPS Lakeshore, who led the team that operated on the boy .
"In all the four other cases, the tumour was reported inside the heart but in this case the tumour was inside and outside the surface of the heart," he added.
