Girl with brain outside the skull

newborn girl born with part of the brain outside the skull, surprised doctors who were convinced that a child with this pathology can not survive. Nobody expected that Vera Martin, who is now three months, will be able to breathe on their own after birth.

During an ultrasound scan at 17 weeks of gestation at the university hospital Middlesbrough parents learned that their unborn baby is a rare disease - encephalocele. Encephalocele and cranial hernia - malformation characterized by herniation of the brain and / or meninges through a defect of the skull bones. This occurs when the neural tube - the predecessor of the central nervous system in the embryo, which includes the brain and spinal cord does not close completely during gestation.

Her mother, Jessica Williams, who already has a one-year son, Logan, said: "When I went to the first ultrasound, the doctors said that the child has a problem. We did not know what to think. We were told that the cranial bones and could not agree on the rear part there is a hole. "

Since in most cases, children with this malformation do not survive, and the survivors are left with lifelong brain damage, as well as suffering from other neurological problems, many parents choose to terminate a pregnancy. "I watched the doctor said that the child will most likely be invalid. We were told that hit that part of the brain that controls breathing activity ", - continues the mother.

After consulting with doctors the parents decided to keep the baby. I hope they instilled a consultant from the hospital in Newcastle. To avoid damage to the projection, Williams was planning to have a baby by caesarean section. However, due to the fact that the waters withdrew early from the operation had to be abandoned. He recalls the mother immediately after the birth of her daughter crying, like all children, but a few minutes later, she issued a very unusual cry. Four days after the birth of the Faith made MRI, the results of which have not been encouraging. Further, a hernia grew and reached December 21 centimeters in diameter, though at birth does not exceed 6 cm. 95,060,473

January 10, when she was three months, she underwent surgery. Surgeons removed the protruding portion, which contained cerebrospinal fluid and dead brain tissue. Now faith is forced to take place every six months, MRI scans and examinations of the doctors who follow its development, reports Mail Online.

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