MADAKITARI WATUMIA GUDI YA SUPERGULE KUZUIA KUVUJA DAMU KWENYE UBONGO.

Madakitari wa Univesty of Kansas Hospital wamemsaidia mtoto mwenye umri wa wiki tatu (3) Ashlyn Julian matatizo aliokuwa nayo na kuvuja Damu kwenye Ubongo kwa kuziba kwa kumuwekea gundi aina ya supergule ili kuokoa maisha.

Mtoto Ashlyn baada ya kuzibwa sehemu iliokuwa inatatizo.

Akiwa katika chumba cha wagonjwa wa uangalizi maalum (ICU)

Wazazi wake wakiwa katika hali ya kumuulumia mtoto wao.

A team of Kansas doctors say super glue saved a baby girl’s life by stopping the bleeding in her brain.
Ashlyn Julian was born May 16. Her parents, Gina and Jared Julian, said she was a healthy newborn.
However, in a matter of days, Ashlyn went from being a quiet but tired baby to one who was screaming and vomiting, Gina Julian said.

The alarmed parents rushed the infant to Children's Mercy Hospital in Kansas City twice. The doctors there conducted an ultrasound and found something in her head.

Ashlyn was transferred to the University of Kansas Hospital, where doctors discovered the she had an almond-sized aneurysm in the middle of her brain.

 

"We did not know what the right answer was. This was not a textbook case," Dr. Koji Ebersole, an endovascular neurosurgeon at the hospital, told CNN. "If you try to treat the baby without closing the aneurysm ... most of those babies can't survive. So we had a strong reason to develop a plan to close the aneurysm."

The plan involved sterile surgical superglue similar to the kind sold in stores, the smallest adult catheter available and wire as thin as a strand of hair.

On June 5, the surgeons fed the catheter through an artery to her brain. They then used the microwire to place a drop of glue on the aneurysm.

 

"We thinned the baby's blood so she would make clots on top of our instruments, which is risky because you don't want to thin the blood in the setting of a bleeding aneurysm, but we were going all or nothing at that point and I thought we could get it done," Ebersole told KSHB.

The super glue method had previously been used on adults, but not on someone as tiny as Ashlyn. In fact, brain bleeding is so rare in babies that there weren't tools small enough for the standard procedure.

 

But the surgery was a success, and Ashlyn's breathing tube was even removed the next day.

"I did not know that she'd be ready that fast, and I think she's been making steady strides since, so we're all very happy," Ebersole said.

Although she still has to spend some time in the hospital to allow the fluids from the aneurysm to drain, Ashlyn is expected to make a full recovery, KSHB reported.

"You can't even say thank you. Thank you is not enough, but thank you,"