According to the report of the Associated Press, an almost one-month-old boy born with his heart lying outside his chest successfully underwent serious surgery in Miami on Wednesday, with physicians easing the organ inside his body.
Naseem Hasni was born on October 31 with a disorder known as ectopia cordis, in which the heart develops outside of the chest. The heart has been beating normally and its aorta grew under the skin in order to deliver blood to the body.
In the six-hour surgery, doctors at Holtz Children’s Hospital wrapped the baby’s heart in Gore-Tex fabric, later added a layer of his own skin to replicate the missing pericardium, the sac that usually develops around the heart. And next then eased the heart within the boy’s chest.
The surgeons informed that Naseem remained in critical but stable condition Wednesday. "He is not going to be able to practice particular sports disciplines where a blow to the sternum to you and me wouldn’t be a problem, but in him it would be. Therefore, I think that some competitive sports are going to be out," cardiothoracic surgeon Dr Eliot Rosenkranz told the AP. "Nonetheless, he’s going to be able to take part in other kinds of activities."
Ectopia cordis happens in up to 7.9 per 1 million live births and has a post-surgery survival rate of 50 per cent, the physicians of the boy explained.
