Extraordinary Children is a Holly Hapless Brand by Stephen Walker
Doctors and Surgeons at Great Ormond Street Hospital in London treat a remarkable range of medical conditions in children. Here is a Child in a Million.
Not all treatments are successful but many young lives are transformed for the better.
Tahlia Lovegrove was born with a narrowed trachea, a condition known a long segment tracheal stenosis. She requires urgent surgery to correct her breathing.
Although complex, Tahlia’s procedure has been completed successfully at Great Ormond Street Hospital by Professor Martin Elliot.
Sandip and Jaydip Bhattacharyya were both born with the same deformity of the cornea. A rare condition known as Peter’s Anomaly.
Cornea implants, performed by Ken Nischal, have improved the vision of the boys although still visually impaired Sandip and Jaydip now have a future.
Metanephic blastema are specialised cells that help form the kidneys when a child is in the womb. At birth these cells disappear, but in Molly’s case they didn’t, they carried on growing into a Wilms’ Tumour.
The histology results are good; No malignant cells were left alive. With this news, Dr Levitt informs Emma and Rob that there should be no need for the final operation. Molly will need to continue her chemotherapy for at least another six months.
Matthew Banks was born with a heart defect that left a hole between the left and right chambers. Now that he is eleven it needs the valve replaced.
Six years ago, Professor Philipp Bonhoeffer developed a collapsible heart valve that could be implanted without the need for open-heart surgery.
In Pulmonary Hypertension the blood vessels in the lungs thicken making it harder for the heart to circulate the blood. Leanne Pannell was stricken aged 13.
Leanne Pannell is coming up for her eighteenth birthday and has almost outgrown Great Ormond Street’s care. So after five years it’s time for Professor Haworth to say farewell.
CD40 Ligand deficiency affects only boys and occurs in only one in a million births. Kyle Smal is one of the unlucky few and is taken to Great Ormond Street to face a challenging transfusion.
After much preparation and chemotherapy, the process failed to take and Kyle must live with the condition.
When Kody Barrowman was born his neck was so swollen his airway was blocked. He had a condition known as cystic hygroma a defect of the lymphatic system.
Consultant Ben Hartley plans to operate to reduce the swelling in his mouth and reduce the size of his tongue.
Born with an underdeveloped left side to his heart, Joshua Tinworth needed urgent surgery to correct the problem. Three surgeries are scheduled.
Sadly, despite the success of the initial surgery, complications developed and baby Joshua did not pull through.
Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy is rare but Jessica Grace’s case has doctors puzzled by the unusual way it manifests.
After nine weeks as an in-patient and five weeks as an out-patient, Jessica was walking almost normally again. Her perseverance has paid off.
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