Pioneer Surgery in Barcelona: Operating in the Womb of the Mother to a Fetus that Had the Intestines Outside
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The malformation of the baby, called gastroschisis, is rare and involved an operation in the mother's womb at 28 weeks of gestation. Some time after surgery, the baby was born without complications.
Little Thiago, two months old, sleeps outside the stir around him, and does not know that he was operated before even knowing the world. He had not yet opened his eyes, had not cried for the first time, nor had he breathed out of his mother’s womb, Camila. He weighed just 700 grams when a medical team in Barcelona, composed of specialists from Hospital Sant Joan de Deu and Hospital Clínic de Barcelona, decided to intervene because his life could…
During the 20th week of pregnancy, the professionals of the Hospital Clínic who followed the pregnancy of Camila, a 20-year-old girl, detected in a routine ultrasound that the fetus suffered a congenital malformation known as gastrosquisis. Because of the same, the abdominal wall of the baby does not close properly, which causes a hole near the navel, to the right of the umbilical cord, whereby the intestines - although in some cases the same ca…
The Hospital de Sant Joan de Déu and the Clínic de Barcelona carry out the first intervention in Europe to correct a serious gastrosquisis during the gestation of the fetusThe Hospital Sant Joan de Déu implants one of the smallest pacemakers in the world The little Thiago, a baby of just two months of life, was to be born with intestines outside the abdomen.It is a rare malformation called gastrosquisis, which in the most serious cases can irrep…
Tiago was doomed not to see the light. His intestine had developed completely outside the body and that put his life at risk. Camila Molina, his mother, was in the 20th week of gestation when the doctors detected the serious malformation in a routine ultrasound and referred her to BCNatal -consortium of maternal fetal medicine and neonatology made up of Hospital Sant Joan de Déu (HSJD) and Hospital Clínic (HC) Barcelona-, a center of reference i…
Little Thiago, two months old, sleeps peacefully in his mother’s arms, Camila Molina. He doesn’t change before the cloud of cameras that surround him. He’s in his own way and when he grows up he won’t remember this, nor that his name will be part, in any way, of the history of fetal surgery in Spain: before he was born, when his mother was 28 weeks pregnant and he was a fetus of about 700 grams, Thiago was the protagonist of a pioneering operati…
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