Professors of the St. Vladimir Children's Clinical Hospital performed a unique operation to save a newborn baby, who was born with a rare pathology - two genitals
Baby Artem G. was born in Odintsovo on February 26. Everything was going well. The future mother monitored her health, was constantly monitored by doctors. The child in the family was desired, and nothing boded trouble.
The birth began on time. But when the baby was born, the doctors were horrified. The newborn had two penises, and the anterior abdominal wall was missing. During the entire existence of the maternity hospital, doctors have encountered such a pathology for the first time.
All the leading specialists of the clinic immediately ran into the delivery room. To the surprise of the doctors, despite the terrible pathology, the child breathed on his own and the whole body was healthy.
“Abroad, if a doctor observing a woman misses this, he will be permanently deprived of his license,” a specialist from one of the children's hospitals in Moscow shared with Life.ru. - Perhaps the ultrasound did not show any pathology, but the gynecologists should have suspected that something was wrong.
Despite the healthy body, the child's days were numbered with such an ugliness. Little Artyom's parents tearfully begged the doctors to save their son's life.
Artem was not only saved his life. He will grow up to be a full-fledged man
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“Our colleagues from Odintsovo approached us and asked to help,” says one of the doctors of the St. Vladimir clinic in the capital. “But we could not even think that we would face such a difficult case.
The professors of the Moscow Children's Clinical Hospital immediately gave the go-ahead for surgical intervention. Little Artyom was transported in a reanimobile to Moscow on the same day.
- The operation was going to be very complicated: it was necessary to form one of the two genitals, - the doctor continues, - to build up the anterior abdominal wall, to form the missing bladder.
The doctors did not hide the fact that the case was difficult and did not give the parents of little Artemka any guarantees. World medicine is not often faced with such pathologies. In the world of such children are born one in a million.
- Foreign colleagues, if they operate on such a child, then the male genital organ is not preserved. Such children are made into girls and then all his life such a person "sits" on hormonal drugs - it is much easier that way, - the doctor shares the intricacies of the profession.
Metropolitan professors decided not to break the fate of the crumbs and keep him gender.
The most complicated operation, which was carried out by the leading professors of the St. Vladimir Children's Clinical Hospital, Yuri Sokolov and Yuri Rudin, lasted five hours.
In the end, the almost impossible was done. The doctors managed not only to save the baby's life and restore the genitals, but also to preserve the reproductive functions.
- He will be a full-fledged man and, perhaps, will never even know that his days were numbered, - the doctors are sure.