Hue Central Hospital successfully operated on a rare deformity
PNO – The surgery lasted 8 hours with many different surgeon teams: neurology, ENT, and maxillofacial.
Hue Central Hospital said it successfully operated on child patient Le Lam P. – 7 years old, residing in District 12, Ho Chi Minh City.
On September 19, Hue Central Hospital received patient Le Lam P. The patient’s parents, Le Viet T. and Nguyen Thi Cuc H., said that since birth, the baby girl had a deformity in both eyes. no alar bone and cleft palate. The baby had his cleft palate stitched when he was 7 months old.
Baby P.’s parents took her to many hospitals in Ho Chi Minh City, but the hospitals all shook their heads.
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Seeing him go to school with a deformed face, his parents felt sad.
Receiving the pediatric patient, Hue Central Hospital asked the doctors to complete all tests and consult with Professor McKay McKinnon of the University of Chicago Medicine, USA, a leading expert in plastic surgery. has come to work at Hue Central Hospital many times.
On October 26, Professor McKinnon agreed to come to Vietnam with a team of doctors from Hue Central Hospital to perform surgery on P.
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The surgery lasted 8 hours with many different teams of surgeons: neurology, ENT, and maxillofacial surgery.
As a result, P.’s face was successfully shaped. In the next direction, Hue Central Hospital will create a wing of the nose so that the child has a more normal and beautiful face.
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On October 27, Professor Pham Nhu Hiep – Director of Hue Central Hospital – and Professor McKay McKinnnon visited patient P.. After the surgery, patient P. recovered well.
Doctors said that congenital defects of the distal eye socket and aplasia of the nasal alar bone are rare defects in children, accounting for less than 0.1%.
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Professor Pham Nhu Hiep – Director of Hue Central Hospital – instructs the patient’s mother how to care for and practice eye reflexes for her child after surgery. |
It is known that in April 2020, Professor McKay McKinnon will return to Hue Central Hospital to continue performing surgery on difficult cases.
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