The British doctors managed to save a girl who was born with a rare disease, where the heart develops outside the body.
For the life of the kid fought fifty physicians from the medical centre Glenfield in Leicester. They managed to do the impossible — to implant artificial baby’s chest and move the heart muscle. According to the Independent, this is the first in the history of British medicine successful operation of this kind.
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Now she is 3 weeks — she is developing normally and the parents can’t get enough of the new addition to the family. They named her daughter Pennelope hope after a character in disney cartoon Ralph.
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Naomi Findlay and Dan Wilkins learned about the pathology of the fetus at the 9th week of pregnancy. Contrary to the beliefs of doctors, they decided to keep the baby.
Peneloppe had to see the world on the eve of Rajasta, but the doctors had to make her mother a caesarean section a little early. The mortality rate in patients with ectopia of the heart is a fatal level, so the prognosis was negative. However, the pair believe in the best, and the surgeons did everything possible to defeat the statistics. It took three operations.
Only eight babies per million are born with heart outside of body: of these, 90% are stillborn or die immediately. Pediatrician-cardiologist Francis Bullock admits that this is the second time in 30 years, when a child with a similar anomaly survived.
«The girl is lucky enough to have anatomically normal heart, which is not true of most such children. Besides, her body no comorbidities. She has a great recovery and a great support group,» sums up the doctor.
