Wednesday, March 14, 2012

A fetus of 800 grams of a lung surgery

In Basque, his name means "joy". Today, the Altaiz breathing, lung was full. "This is the first time that such an operation is attempted and successful," said this Wednesday, March 13 Dr. Eduard Spanish Gratacos, head of fetal medicine Hospital Clinic of Barcelona, presenting the miracle baby. The child now 16 months old was operated on successfully-a-lung while she was still a fetus of 800 grams. A world premiere.

His mother, Monica Corominas, aged 33, was only 26 weeks of pregnancy when the team of doctors at two hospitals in Barcelona attempted operation. The fetus suffered from a "bronchial atresia," obstruction of the lungs of congenital origin, which affects a fetus of 10 000 on average. This "obstruction jeopardized his life because the lung was growing abnormally and behaved like a tumor," said the doctor.

The operation lasted 30 minutes
His team has the baby asleep before him bring a fetoscope (miniature endoscope adapted to a fetus) of the larynx to the lungs as an adult. "Without the fetal therapy, the baby would not have survived," said Eduard Gratacos. This is a very delicate procedure because it is conducted near the heart, in tissues of the thickness of a sheet of cigarette paper. "A small error in the handling of instruments" can lead to fetal death. "

The operation lasted half an hour. Thirty minutes are likely to remain the longest of his life.

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