Pediatric surgeons at Children Hospital No. 1 moved L.B.Ng’s small and large intestines and part of her liver from her chest back to her abdomen and closed a hole in her diaphragm.
The baby had been listless since birth, with breathing difficulties and bluish skin.
Local surgeons usually cut the patient open from chest to abdomen to repair these problems.
The patient then needs the support of an oxygen machine to breathe for the next seven days.
A diaphragmatic hernia is a birth defect in which there is an abnormal opening in the diaphragm allowing part of the abdominal organs to move into the chest area.
Reported by Thanh Tung |
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