Breeze He was born on July 7 and has been fighting for his life ever since. A Rocio Escobedo, Brisa’s mother, underwent an emergency caesarean section at week 35. Her firstborn was born with acute fetal distress, presenting hematochezia on several occasions and abdominal distension, for which she had to be operated on the day after her birth. She underwent an exploratory laparotomy and found that much of her small intestine was necrotic.
In the operation, “a midgut volvulus with 3 counterclockwise turns with extensive necrosis was identified from one centimeter of the angle of Treiz to 5 centimeters from the ileocecal valve, therefore they performed the resection of all that necrosed part of the small intestine, leaving only the duodenum, 1 cm of jejunum and 5 cm of ileum. Since July 11, 2022, he has been receiving total parenteral nutrition (prolonged NPT)”, according to the parents. Brisa has Ultrashort Bowel Syndrome
Brisa has gone through two operations
On September 13, the minor underwent a second emergency operation because her abdomen was again distended and the x-ray showed air outside the intestine. This bowel perforation was caused by severe 5 Hgb anemia that was not promptly treated and a generalized PCR 24 infection that was not adequately treated. Because of this, the 5 cm of jejunum that grew in the span of two months of her life was resected.
Nowadays, Brisa is admitted to the Pediatric Gastroenterology Service of the Edgardo Rebagliati Martins Hospitalin Lima.
Both the doctors at the clinic where he was born (Clínica San Judas Tadeo) and the specialists at the Edgardo Rebagliati Hospital mention that his condition is stationary, his case is chronic and his prognosis is guarded.
Brisa’s mother tells her case
expensive treatment
In Peru, given the complexity of Brisa’s clinical picture, and despite being hospitalized in one of the most specialized institutions to treat cases of Short Bowel Syndrome, the doctors do not give her hope for life. On the part of EsSalud, according to the parents, they cannot finance the treatment of the minor abroad, seeing the route of small intestine transplant as the only possibility of treatment and this type of operation is not performed in Peru.
Brisa’s parents have presented themselves to various institutions and hospitals abroad, making the Johns Hopkins Medicine International Hospital in Florida – USA you can start your intestinal rehabilitation treatment, however the budget for your treatment for the first three months of $2,728,276.80.
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