Barcelona (Spain), 13 mar (EFE).-A team of Spanish doctors practiced surgery pioneer in the world to unblock a clogged bronchus of a 26 week fetus, an intervention which saved his life and which was reported today for the first time with an endoscopy.
“Thanks to ultrasound could be detected the problem in time;” “if we had not intervened it, would the girl be dead”, highlighted the press Dr. Julio Moreno, neonatologist of hospital Catalan Sant Joan de Déu, the Centre which, along with the hospital Clinic of Barcelona, participated in surgery.
After the operation, the pregnancy was normal and, at 38 weeks and 2.5 kilos evolution, was born a girl that currently has 16 months and makes a normal life.
Was the first time in the world intervened a fetus of a right bronchial atresia (serious obstruction of the bronchial tubes) through a tiny endoscope of 3 millimeters by trachea.
After entering the apparatus by the mouth of the fetus, the specialists of the ClÃnic and the Sant Joan de Déu noted obstruction and her drilled with a laser, so reconectaron the bronchi and thus it deflated lung to regain its normal size.
Bronchial atresia at fetal stage had described above, but in all cases not be had been able to intervene and the fetus had died before birth or shortly after birth.
The operation presented today, which took place a year ago and a half, was short, half-hour, but very delicate, as is practiced in a fetus of 800 grams with such tissues as a role of smoking and to few millimeters of the heart.
In this case, one of the main bronchi that connect the lung with trachea is not well formed and lacked a portion, what did the lung would be isolated and their secretions are carried, this body swelling and causing heart failure.
With words of gratitude to the doctors, the mother of the baby, Monica Colomina, of 33 years, told today the moment in which proposed you to intervene her: “It was the only option, or we tested we interrupted pregnancy”.
Explained her mother, the girl called Irene (which means joy in Basque) is “a completely normal life and is happy and happy”.
The only intervention added to which had to submit Irene to the thirteen days of birth was a surgical operation to remove two of the three lobes of the right lung damaged by bronchial obstruction.
According to Dr. Montserrat Castañón, the Sant Joan de Déu paediatric surgeon, having lost two lobes of a lung not affect quality of life in any aspect of Alaitz.
Intervention, entirely designed by specialists of the ClÃnic and Sant Joan de Déu in Barcelona offers an option to save the life of a congenital abnormality such as bronchial atresia which affects one of every 10,000 babies. EFE
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