St. Surgeons at St. Petersburg University of Pediatrics saved a five-month-old baby with a giant heart tumor; The operation took six hours. about this reports press service of the medical institution.
A baby from the Ulyanovsk region was admitted to the university clinic. The girl’s heart pathology was discovered during intrauterine development. The ultrasound examination performed at the 36th week of pregnancy revealed the presence of a space-occupying lesion in the heart of the fetus.
Immediately after birth, the girl was diagnosed with cardiopathology – a tumor that blocks the blood outflow pathway. It was decided to remove the tumor, which was three times the size of the child’s heart.
“Due to its size, the tumor compressed the left main bronchus and did not allow the left lung to participate in the act of breathing. The clinic reported that the girl’s condition became serious and unstable due to circulatory failure, imbalance in lung blood flow and pulmonary edema.
The tumor had spread so far into the tissue that a biopsy was only possible during open heart surgery; The tumor turned out to be benign. The treatment of the child, who remained in intensive care for a long time, continues in the clinic.
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Source: Gazeta
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