In Lviv, doctors fought for the girl’s life for a month. Surgeons operated on the newborn Elizabeth in an intensive care unit that ensures the child’s life.
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The girl was born with a defect in her diaphragm, which caused the intestines, stomach and left liver to move into the place of her left lung. She was also diagnosed with a cyst that occupied half of her abdominal cavity.
This was reported by the press service of the First TMO of Lvov.
Elizaveta is the third child in the Mitkov family from Stryi in the Lviv region. The girl’s mother, Oksana, says, since she had experience with previous pregnancies, at 29 weeks she felt that something was wrong with the child. The woman signed up for an examination and it was determined that the girl had a congenital pathology – a diaphragmatic hernia.
Through the hole in the diaphragm, the baby’s abdominal organs moved into the chest space. So in place of the left lung there appeared the intestines, stomach and left fate of the liver.
Oksana was sent to the Lviv Children’s Hospital of St. Nicholas. There, during the next examination, another pathology was discovered in the child – a rapidly growing cyst in the abdominal cavity.
Elizabeth was born at 37 weeks of pregnancy. According to doctors, the child needed immediate surgery. Despite this, doctors could not perform the intervention because the baby was not breathing on his own. Neonatologists connected Elizaveta to a high-frequency ventilation device, and the operation was postponed for a week.
A week after birth, our surgeons began to operate on Elizaveta right in the intensive care unit – right in the incubator, which ensured the baby’s vital functions. First, they removed the cyst, which already occupied half of the abdominal cavity. Then the organs from the chest space were returned to their place – into the abdominal cavity.
During the third stage of the operation, surgeons corrected the defect itself – they restored the muscular membrane of the diaphragm. Therefore, the left lung was able to return to its place, expanded and filled with air, the report says.
The girl was nursed for about three more weeks. During discharge, Elizabeth and her mother were met by her older sisters, father and grandmother.
Source: Racurs
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