With a spectacular team effort, specialists from the Munich Clinic saved the lives of a pregnant woman suffering from Corona and her baby.
Munich - When Imenta Theodoridou woke up from the Corona * coma, she did not know whether she was still pregnant or already a mom.
One question tormented her more than the virus: “What about my child?
I was terrified for the little one, ”says the 36-year-old.
But the doctors at the Munich * Klinik Harlaching * had not only brought mom over the mountain, they were also able to roll the huge boulder from her heart.
At this point, the team in the premature baby intensive care unit had long been busy nurturing little Dimitra with care.
The doctors had brought her by caesarean section seven days earlier, while the mother was being ventilated under anesthesia.
Her baby weighed just 1100 grams and came on September 21, 29th week of pregnancy.
The regular date would have been December 9th.
Corona drama in Munich: "There was no longer any alternative to the caesarean section"
Although Dimitra was born an extremely premature baby, she is fine today, she has already doubled her weight.
“Dimitra has no permanent damage.
We assume that she will be completely healthy, ”reports Prof. Marcus Krüger, Head of Neonatology (neonatal medicine).
Working in a team with their colleagues from obstetrics, his specialists managed to save the lives of mother and child.
"When the monitoring values of both of them got worse and worse, there was no longer any alternative to the caesarean section," explains gynecology chief Prof. Christoph Scholz.
Munich: Corona virus restricted blood exchange between mother and child
The pregnancy became life-threatening for the expectant mother, and her unborn child was also getting worse and worse.
But it wasn't the virus itself that bothered the baby, it wasn't even infected with it.
"An infection in the womb only takes place in one to three percent of cases," explains Krüger.
However, the virus destroyed the placenta.
“It causes inflammatory processes in it, which block the fine vessels of the placenta.
As a result, the blood exchange between mother and child is increasingly restricted, ”says Scholz.
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Expert estimates: half of expectant mothers are not vaccinated
The tragic: the mother didn't have to end up in the corona intensive care unit.
She was not vaccinated, especially since there was no corresponding recommendation from Stiko at the time: "Today I would no longer take this risk." Gynecologist Scholz estimates that not even half of all pregnant women get vaccinated - also because they are afraid of their unborn child to harm: "It was not possible to win the trust of the expectant mothers and to convince them of the great benefit of the vaccination."
Therefore, many women suffer a fate similar to that of Imenta.
Four pregnant women are currently being treated in the Corona ward in Harlaching * alone.
Imenta's husband was also in intensive care.
The day after the 40-year-old took his wife to the hospital, he was so sick himself that he had to be admitted.
While the parents were in intensive care, the 14-year-old daughter looked after her three siblings at home.
They were also infected with corona and some had significant symptoms *.
“I am overjoyed that our five children, my husband and I are fine again today,” says Imenta.
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