A baby with a diaphragm defect incompatible with life was rescued in Belarus

The vice is incompatible with life: children with this diagnosis die in the first hours after birth. At the Republican Scientific and Practical Center of pediatric surgery, the patient was connected to a device that replaces the lungs and heart. This made it possible to stabilize the condition and perform a unique operation on prosthetics of the diaphragm in a few days. A week later, a second heart operation was performed. This case is the first in belarus when a child with a rare defect survived. The best centers in the world, with highly qualified specialists and appropriate equipment, provide no more than 5-6% survival rate, and this is in the absence of a heart defect. The little patient managed to be transferred to full independent breathing, he is being prepared for discharge.