Teratomas, although a rare malformation in infants, are subject to surgical correction and are not indications for termination of pregnancy.
Three babies with half-kilogram tumors were born simultaneously in the maternity ward of St. Nicholas Children’s Hospital in Lviv. Hospital surgeons successfully removed the congenital formations. The hospital’s press service reported this today, February 2.
It was reported that all three children had the same diagnoses – sacrococcygeal teratomas.
One of the three operated babies was Matvey from Kharkov, who was born with a weight of 3470 g, 470 of which weighed sacrococcygeal teratoma – a tumor that develops in babies when they are still in the mother’s womb.
“At 20 weeks of pregnancy, we came for a routine screening in Kharkov, where we were diagnosed with a teratoma. We were advised to terminate the pregnancy. Matvey was our long-awaited son, so we began to look for opportunities to correct the birth defect,” said Evgenia, the child’s mother.
The woman found out that in Lviv, in St. Nicholas Hospital, surgeons have successfully operated on babies with these tumors for 10 years, and he turned to the specialists of this institution.
“Matveychik was born in our maternity ward and after several days of observation in the intensive care unit, he was taken to the operating room. The intervention took place in several stages: first, the surgeons removed the tumors, then performed a soft tissue plastic surgery and anorectoplasty So, thanks to just one intervention, doctors were able to completely correct the congenital defect.” , – hospital report.
Almost at the same time as Matveychik, hospital surgeon Galina Kurilo operated on Yarinka and Zlatochka with the same tumors. The condition of the three operated children is satisfactory and they can now be discharged home.
“We have never had such a number of babies born almost simultaneously with congenital teratomas. There were more cases of this pathology when we opened our own maternity ward in our hospital. Now our specialists are can provide a full range of care to babies in a ” Reminder of our doctors: although teratomas are a rare malformation in babies, they are subject to surgical correction and are not an indication for termination of pregnancy ,” the statement said.
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It was previously reported that a team of Kyiv and Lviv doctors performed a heart-lung complex transplantation operation for the first time in Ukraine.
Source: korrespondent
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