Welcome, Guest: Register On Nairaland / LOGIN! / Trending / Recent / New
Stats: 3,217,701 members, 8,035,162 topics. Date: Monday, 23 December 2024 at 04:58 AM

Nigerian Surgeon Removes Baby From Womb, Operates On Her Tumor, Returns Her Back - Health - Nairaland

Nairaland Forum / Nairaland / General / Health / Nigerian Surgeon Removes Baby From Womb, Operates On Her Tumor, Returns Her Back (70782 Views)

Dr. Oluyinka Olutoye, The Nigerian Surgeon With A Difference (Photos) / Nigerian Surgeon Removes Lady's Ovary Instead Of Her Appendix / Nigerian Surgeon Removes Baby From Womb, Operates On Her & Returns Her Back (2) (3) (4)

(1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (Reply) (Go Down)

Nigerian Surgeon Removes Baby From Womb, Operates On Her Tumor, Returns Her Back by edimalo(m): 11:02am On Oct 26, 2016
www.nairaland.com/attachments/4401399_yink_jpeg162b92e906cd760ebb0386fb5b21580c

CNN)-
Margaret Boemer went for a routine ultrasound 16 weeks into her pregnancy with her third child. She quickly found out that things were far from routine.

"They saw something on the scan, and the doctor came in and told us that there was something seriously wrong with our baby and that she had a sacrococcygeal teratoma," the Plano, Texas, mom said in an interview shared by Texas Children's Hospital. "And it was very shocking and scary, because we didn't know what that long word meant or what diagnosis that would bring."

Sacrococcygeal teratoma is a tumor that develops before birth and grows from a baby's coccyx, the tailbone.

"This is the most common tumor we see in a newborn," said Dr. Darrell Cass, co-director of Texas Children's Fetal Center and associate professor of surgery, pediatrics and obstetrics and gynecology at Baylor College Medicine. "Even though it's the most common we see, it's still pretty rare."

Found more often in girls than boys, this tumor occurs in one out of every 35,000 births.

Unfortunately, this was not the first bad news of Boemer's pregnancy. Originally, she had been pregnant with twins, but lost one of the babies before her second trimester.

It was a shock at 16 weeks to learn of her daughter's rare birth defect.

"Some of these tumors can be very well-tolerated, so the fetus has it and can get born with it and we can take it out after the baby's born," said Cass. "But about half of the time, they cause problems for the fetus and it's usually causing problems because of a blood flow problem."

Cass explained that the tumor is trying to grow by sucking blood flow from the baby, yet the baby is also trying to grow, too "so it becomes a competition."

"And in some instances, the tumor wins and the heart just can't keep up and the heart goes into failure and the baby dies," said Cass.

With a large tumor stealing the blood supply, Boemer's fetus was becoming more ill each day, doctors explained to the expectant mother. Something had to be done.

Although other doctors had advised her to terminate the pregnancy, Cass and his team told her about another possibility: fetal surgery. This option, though, would not be an easy road. Even worse, her baby's chances of survival would be grim.

"LynLee didn't have much of a chance," Boemer said. "At 23 weeks, the tumor was shutting her heart down and causing her to go into cardiac failure, so it was a choice of allowing the tumor to take over her body or giving her a chance at life.

"It was an easy decision for us: We wanted to give her life."

'Kind of a miracle'

She was 23 weeks and 5 days pregnant, when Cass performed the emergency fetal surgery. By this time, the tumor was nearly larger than the fetus.

Cass and Dr. Oluyinka Olutoye, his partner surgeon, operated for about five hours.

"The part on the fetus we do very, very quickly," said Cass. "It's only 20 minutes or so on the actual fetus." Most of the time is spent opening the uterus, which he described as "a big muscle lined with membranes."

"We don't want the mom's health to be jeopardized," said Cass, who explained they work carefully, both making the incision and sewing it up in order "to make that uterus be as sealed and as water tight as possible."

Still, Cass said, the tumor in this case was so large a "huge" incision was needed to get to it, so it ended up that the baby was "hanging out in the air... Essentially, the fetus is outside, like completely out, all the amniotic fluid falls out, it's actually fairly dramatic," said Cass.

During the surgery, LynLee's heart slowed down to an incredibly low rate. "It basically stopped," said Cass. He credits the heart specialist, a key member of the team, for giving the right medication and transfusing the right amount of fluid, allowing the surgeons to continue their work.

The surgical team removed the bulk of the tumor. When they finished their operation, the surgeons placed LynLee back inside the womb and sewed her mother's uterus shut.

"It's kind of a miracle you're able to open the uterus like that and seal it all back and the whole thing works," said Cass.

'Worth every pain'

Boemer was on bed rest for the remainder of her pregnancy. Despite her pain, she marshaled her strength and made it another 12 weeks to nearly 36 weeks -- full term -- when Lynlee Hope was born for the second time via C-section on June 6.

The little fighter, named for both her grandmothers, weighed 5 pounds and 5 ounces.

Immediately, the hospital staff whisked the newborn away to the neonatal intensive care unit for an evaluation, but after this initial checkup, she was deemed healthy and transferred to the nursery.

There's a risk the fetus could be born immediately after the in utero surgery, or die.

After she was born, LynLee faced one more ordeal: removing the bits of tumor that surgeons could not reach, which had begun to grow again.

"At eight days old, she had more surgery, and they were able to remove the rest of the tumor," explained Boemer.

LynLee recovered in the NICU and weeks later, arrived in her family home.

"Baby Boemer is still an infant but is doing beautiful," said Cass, remarking that she is perfectly healthy. His one previous surgery of this kind was also a success. "I think she's about 7 now, and she sings karaoke to Taylor swift -- she's completely normal," said Cass.

While babies facing surgery undoubtedly struggle, mothers' emotional journeys might be most difficult and dramatic. As Cass describes it, first their obstetrician tells them there's something wrong and then they're told there's nothing that can be done and their babies will die and then a surgeon tells them there's something that can be done. Amazingly, some end with a healthy baby.

"It was very difficult," Boemer said.

But seeing her toddler smiling with her sisters, she added: "It was worth every pain."


https://www.google.com.ng/amp/s/amp.cnn.com/cnn/2016/10/20/health/baby-born-twice-fetal-surgery/index.html

31 Likes 5 Shares

Re: Nigerian Surgeon Removes Baby From Womb, Operates On Her Tumor, Returns Her Back by midehi2(f): 11:02am On Oct 26, 2016
shocked

7 Likes

Re: Nigerian Surgeon Removes Baby From Womb, Operates On Her Tumor, Returns Her Back by seunlly(m): 8:42pm On Oct 26, 2016
Genius.. Continue to shine bro

99 Likes 6 Shares

Re: Nigerian Surgeon Removes Baby From Womb, Operates On Her Tumor, Returns Her Back by Nobody: 8:42pm On Oct 26, 2016
Nigerian surgeon, not a Nigerian hospital nor Nigerian medical team...

That should reflect in the topic and not give people a wrong assumption...

184 Likes 7 Shares

Re: Nigerian Surgeon Removes Baby From Womb, Operates On Her Tumor, Returns Her Back by biggz82: 8:42pm On Oct 26, 2016
Nice 1 4 our medical sector

3 Likes 2 Shares

Re: Nigerian Surgeon Removes Baby From Womb, Operates On Her Tumor, Returns Her Back by iceberryose(m): 8:43pm On Oct 26, 2016
And he isn't in Nigeria Why does Nigeria export her talent?

14 Likes

Re: Nigerian Surgeon Removes Baby From Womb, Operates On Her Tumor, Returns Her Back by Nobody: 8:43pm On Oct 26, 2016
Praise God

8 Likes 4 Shares

Re: Nigerian Surgeon Removes Baby From Womb, Operates On Her Tumor, Returns Her Back by mikywonder(m): 8:43pm On Oct 26, 2016
Hmmmm

2 Likes

Re: Nigerian Surgeon Removes Baby From Womb, Operates On Her Tumor, Returns Her Back by narttis1: 8:43pm On Oct 26, 2016
Y

1 Like

Re: Nigerian Surgeon Removes Baby From Womb, Operates On Her Tumor, Returns Her Back by Ayodejioak(m): 8:43pm On Oct 26, 2016
God bless All doctors... including my bae grin

14 Likes

Re: Nigerian Surgeon Removes Baby From Womb, Operates On Her Tumor, Returns Her Back by osborn442(m): 8:43pm On Oct 26, 2016
To God be the glory

5 Likes

Re: Nigerian Surgeon Removes Baby From Womb, Operates On Her Tumor, Returns Her Back by deewhone(f): 8:43pm On Oct 26, 2016
shocked

2 Likes

Re: Nigerian Surgeon Removes Baby From Womb, Operates On Her Tumor, Returns Her Back by teepsee(f): 8:43pm On Oct 26, 2016
And how are we even sure he his truly Nigeria? From his name i can't find it.


We Sabi clam people

8 Likes 1 Share

Re: Nigerian Surgeon Removes Baby From Womb, Operates On Her Tumor, Returns Her Back by Thermodynamics(m): 8:43pm On Oct 26, 2016
You've really made us proud bro. May God grant you more success in your field.

I love Yoruba people, they Gat big brains for education, not all though, some behave totally like Hausa people. But i must marry a yoruba woman from Ibadan.

50 Likes 6 Shares

Re: Nigerian Surgeon Removes Baby From Womb, Operates On Her Tumor, Returns Her Back by Theyveedo(m): 8:43pm On Oct 26, 2016
Nigerians

2 Likes 1 Share

Re: Nigerian Surgeon Removes Baby From Womb, Operates On Her Tumor, Returns Her Back by 3sexy: 8:43pm On Oct 26, 2016
grin
Re: Nigerian Surgeon Removes Baby From Womb, Operates On Her Tumor, Returns Her Back by orimsamsam(m): 8:44pm On Oct 26, 2016
Dr. Oluyinka Olutoye



Just wht I came to confirm. Afonja doctor

85 Likes 5 Shares

Re: Nigerian Surgeon Removes Baby From Womb, Operates On Her Tumor, Returns Her Back by Chynexa(m): 8:44pm On Oct 26, 2016
OK
Re: Nigerian Surgeon Removes Baby From Womb, Operates On Her Tumor, Returns Her Back by chioma96(f): 8:44pm On Oct 26, 2016
wow.. nice one
thank God

1 Like

Re: Nigerian Surgeon Removes Baby From Womb, Operates On Her Tumor, Returns Her Back by Thermodynamics(m): 8:44pm On Oct 26, 2016
Dharniel:
a
a for apple

1 Like

Re: Nigerian Surgeon Removes Baby From Womb, Operates On Her Tumor, Returns Her Back by Princelegacylemoha(m): 8:45pm On Oct 26, 2016
GOODNEWS

11 Likes

Re: Nigerian Surgeon Removes Baby From Womb, Operates On Her Tumor, Returns Her Back by Thermodynamics(m): 8:45pm On Oct 26, 2016
teepsee:
B
B, for bread.

4 Likes 2 Shares

Re: Nigerian Surgeon Removes Baby From Womb, Operates On Her Tumor, Returns Her Back by alizma: 8:45pm On Oct 26, 2016
k
Re: Nigerian Surgeon Removes Baby From Womb, Operates On Her Tumor, Returns Her Back by Thermodynamics(m): 8:45pm On Oct 26, 2016
narttis1:
Y
Y for yam.

2 Likes

Re: Nigerian Surgeon Removes Baby From Womb, Operates On Her Tumor, Returns Her Back by coldsummer: 8:46pm On Oct 26, 2016
husband material

6 Likes 1 Share

Re: Nigerian Surgeon Removes Baby From Womb, Operates On Her Tumor, Returns Her Back by teebaxy(m): 8:46pm On Oct 26, 2016
Nigeria Ben Carson

3 Likes

Re: Nigerian Surgeon Removes Baby From Womb, Operates On Her Tumor, Returns Her Back by Fantastic2m(m): 8:46pm On Oct 26, 2016
Genius

1 Like

Re: Nigerian Surgeon Removes Baby From Womb, Operates On Her Tumor, Returns Her Back by lafuria1(m): 8:46pm On Oct 26, 2016
Impressive. The Nigerian didn't study in Nigeria, so. I can't claim him.

9 Likes

Re: Nigerian Surgeon Removes Baby From Womb, Operates On Her Tumor, Returns Her Back by RedBeauty: 8:47pm On Oct 26, 2016
Is he married grin husband of life grin

5 Likes

Re: Nigerian Surgeon Removes Baby From Womb, Operates On Her Tumor, Returns Her Back by Nobody: 8:47pm On Oct 26, 2016
J

1 Like

Re: Nigerian Surgeon Removes Baby From Womb, Operates On Her Tumor, Returns Her Back by therealwajo: 8:47pm On Oct 26, 2016
Name the name I jus dey look for upandan. May God help us.

2 Likes

Re: Nigerian Surgeon Removes Baby From Womb, Operates On Her Tumor, Returns Her Back by redcliff: 8:47pm On Oct 26, 2016
teepsee:
B

B for ball

(1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (Reply)

Man Dies Of Coronavirus In Delta State After Visiting Lagos / 8 New Cases Of Coronavirus In Nigeria. Total Of 232 Confirmed Cases / Men Beware! Long Sex May Kill You!

(Go Up)

Sections: politics (1) business autos (1) jobs (1) career education (1) romance computers phones travel sports fashion health
religion celebs tv-movies music-radio literature webmasters programming techmarket

Links: (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) (8) (9) (10)

Nairaland - Copyright © 2005 - 2024 Oluwaseun Osewa. All rights reserved. See How To Advertise. 30
Disclaimer: Every Nairaland member is solely responsible for anything that he/she posts or uploads on Nairaland.