Varese, minimally invasive techniques: three children saved in Del Ponte – Cronaca

varese, July 19, 2018 – "Miracolo" in the operating room. Three children were rescued by pediatric surgery specialists from Del Ponte Hospital because of malformations that, if left untreated, could have degenerated into pathologies potentially fatal.

hit two girls, born just at the Varese garrison eight months ago, suffering from a quite rare pulmonary syndrome, intralobar crisis. The children were operated on in thoracoscopy and already three days after the surgery, they could go home, in the arms of their parents. The doctors removed the malformed lung lobe from both lungs with only three holes, two by three millimeters and one by five millimeters to insert the surgical instruments and the endoscopic camera.

Thanks to this minimally invasive technique promotes a faster recovery, reducing the hospital stay to a few days and avoiding the orthopedic-type complications that can occur after a thoracotomy, and obtaining much better results aesthetic. "This type of intervention – explains Professor Mbadimo Agosti, director of the Department of Mother and Child Asters of the Seven Lakes – carried out with minimally invasive techniques, places the newborn Surgery pediatric varicose at the level of large Italian pediatric surgeries ". With the removal of the lobe, the two young girls are not only immune to the degeneration that the malformation they present could generate, but they will not even have any. other problems: to operate so soon, indeed, that the lung will regenerate itself. Also in the same rooms of Del Ponte a few days ago had been operated a baby born just two days, suffering from atresia of the esophagus. "This is another very high-level intervention," says Valerio Gentilino, director of pediatric surgery, to the point that, for pediatric surgeons, it's a real test of 39; excellence. If, indeed, the intraoperative risk is a little lower than the two pulmonary operations, the level of complexity for the surgeon is on the contrary maximum, especially if the operation is performed in thoracoscopy, as we did » . In practice, it is a question of reconstructing an esophagus that has not completely formed, preventing the baby from feeding and therefore living