What strange disease does the baby girl's heart grow in vitro?
4hw.org: Recently, a foreign baby girl has attracted attention because her heart grows outside her body. Doctors once claimed that she is almost impossible to survive. However, nine days after her birth, she was successfully operated on. Why does the baby girl's heart grow outside? Let's have a look!
A British baby girl named vanellope hope was born with her heart outside her body. Doctors once claimed that her chances of survival were almost zero, but the stubborn little girl survived miraculously after the operation.
The mother, Naomi Findlay, found an ectopic heart at 9 weeks of gestation and doctors advised her to terminate the pregnancy, but she and her husband, Dean Wilkins, insisted on giving birth to the child. Doctors have warned them that the fetus is likely to have chromosomal abnormalities, heart and blood circulation problems, or even to survive birth.
Fortunately, experts at 13 and 16 weeks found that the fetus was basically normal except for cardiac ectopia. The Wilkins also had a special blood test, which showed a low risk of chromosomal abnormalities.
Doctors made a careful plan to welcome vanellope's birth. A team of 50 doctors, midwives and nurses was divided into four groups, responsible for delivery, ensuring the safety of mothers and carrying out complex heart surgery.
At 9 a.m. local time on November 22, Findlay, 35.5 weeks pregnant, had a caesarean section. At 9:50, vanellope was born, and she was immediately wrapped in a sterile plastic bag and sent to the next operating room.
50 minutes after birth, vanellope was returned to the main operating room, where doctors needed to put her heart back into her chest. They carefully opened a two penny hole in vanellope's chest and covered the beating heart with a protective film.
Over the next nine days, vanellope's heart sank into a hole in his chest. The doctor replaced the temporary protective film with a permanent protective film, and connected the loose ribs with a special mesh to form a protective layer in the chest.
Vanellope has survived successfully and is now three weeks old. Her experience is rare because most expectant mothers choose to have an abortion when they find out that the fetus has an ectopic heart. There is no record of several such operations, and vanellope is likely to be the first in the UK.