Yekaterinburg doctors saved a newborn with a rare brain pathology. The baby's parents learned about the pathology during pregnancy. Mom was sent into labor on time. And on the eighth day of his life, the baby was urgently transferred to the pediatric cardiac intensive care unit. It was impossible to wait: the boy's heart was already too busy. - Surgical treatment is often required for newborns with this diagnosis in the first days of their lives. And in this case, it was also impossible to wait until the child grew up, because in addition to an arterial malformation, the fetus was diagnosed with cardiomegaly in the womb - a condition in which the size of the heart is larger than the anatomical norm - pointed out Kamila Malyutova, a doctor in the Department of Surgical Methods and X-ray Surgical Treatment of Special Clinical Hospital No. 1. Doctors, using a special adhesive composition, blocked the largest shunt through which blood was released into the vein of Gallen. And they achieved a reduction of the load on the heart by 50%. We wish health to the baby Photo: Ministry of Health of the Sverdlovsk Region We are always in touch here.

Yekaterinburg doctors saved a newborn with a rare brain pathology. The baby's parents learned about the pathology during pregnancy. Mom was sent into labor on time. And on the eighth day of his life, the baby was urgently transferred to the pediatric cardiac intensive care unit. It was impossible to wait: the boy's heart was already too busy. - Surgical treatment is often required for newborns with this diagnosis in the first days of their lives. And in this case, it was also impossible to wait until the child grew up, because in addition to an arterial malformation, the fetus was diagnosed with cardiomegaly in the womb - a condition in which the size of the heart is larger than the anatomical norm - pointed out Kamila Malyutova, a doctor in the Department of Surgical Methods and X-ray Surgical Treatment of Special Clinical Hospital No. 1. Doctors, using a special adhesive composition, blocked the largest shunt through which blood was released into the vein of Gallen. And they achieved a reduction of the load on the heart by 50%. We wish health to the baby Photo: Ministry of Health of the Sverdlovsk Region We are always in touch here.