The story of Giulia, made at the neck while it is still in the womb

He ONLY HAS three days and has already had to fight to stay alive. Fortunately, at the moment julia is well, and the credit is a surgical intervention carried out at the exact moment of birth, when the little girl was still attached to the mother by the umbilical cord. As reported by the newspaper The Arena, to make it possible for this small miracle has been the work of a team of 25 doctors and nurses of the hospital of the Woman and Child of Borgo Trento, Verona, who trained a long time in anticipation of the intervention, in order to prepare for any type of unexpected.

And in fact, a unexpected there was. Everything had been planned in the minimum details, with the idea to induce the delivery on Monday 17th, but the waters of the mother of Giulia, the broken in advance in the night between last Saturday and Sunday, forcing the medical team of the hospital to perform emergency surgery in itself extremely complex. The technique used is known by the acronym Eit, or ex utero intrapartum treatment, and is used in the case of fetal malformations with a high risk of airway obstruction. Intervening when the baby is still attached to the placenta, the small receives all the oxygen it needs from the maternal blood through the umbilical cord, and you can operate without the risk of damage to the brain caused by lack of oxygenation.

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easier said than done, of course. But in the case of Giulia luckily, everything went as hoped, and the doctors were able to remove part of a cancer of eight inches cresciutole on the neck, operandola at the height of the head while the body was still inside the mother's uterus, allowing the small to breathe on their own once detached from the umbilical cord. In the next few days they will then undergo a new surgery, to remove the rest of the tumor mass, and at the time it is followed with attention by doctors to assess his condition. Only a decade ago, however, he would have had little chance to survive the childbirth. The surgery Exit is in fact a type of intervention that is available only from a few years in Europe and in Italy, and has already saved the lives of many children, one time destined, unfortunately, to die at the same time that they were in the world.

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