A newborn suffering from nasal myelomeningocele was saved with an endoscopic intervention, a very rare pathology that involves a defective closure of the base of the skull, such as to cause, during fetal life, the descent of a small part of the brain inside the nose.
The surgery, performed at the Regina Margherita Children's Hospital of the City of Health in Turin, would have no precedent in the world on such a small patient. In addition to the risk of meningitis, the biggest problem was that the hole was located in the backmost part of the nose and therefore that the portion of the brain that descended into the nose (very voluminous) obstructed the passage of air, causing increasingly difficult breathing.
The brain went down into the nose, saved a newborn
2023-06-02T11:01:49.755Z
Highlights: A newborn suffering from nasal myelomeningocele was saved with an endoscopic intervention. The surgery, performed at the Regina Margherita Children's Hospital of the City of Health in Turin, would have no precedent in the world on such a small patient. The problem was that the hole was located in the backmost part of the nose and therefore that the portion of the brain that descended into the nose (very voluminous) obstructed the passage of air, causing increasingly difficult breathing.
It was saved, with an endoscopic operation, a newborn suffering from nasal myelomeningocele, a very rare pathology that involves a defective closure of the base of the skull, such as to cause, during fetal life, the descent of a small part of the ... (ANSA)