When Megan Wilde distributed to his son Lussiano, he not only experienced delivery, but also a medical first.
During his delivery, doctors performed open heart surgery on Luciano in the first successful operation of their kind.
The 35-year-old Wilde, Dr. ABC News Chief Medical Correspondent and Board-Certified Cardiologist Dr. Tara told Narula, “I really got scared what could happen because it is a lot that is IFS, and you don’t know until the child is.” An interview that aired on “Good Morning America” on Friday.
Wilde was a 24 -week pregnant with her first child when she and her fiancé Luciano Renaga learned that her child had a serious heart defect known as hypoplastic left heart syndrome.
According to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, an important congenital heart defect occurs when the heart is not right on the left side during pregnancy.
Wilde said about his response to the diagnosis, “When you are pregnant, it is really exciting time, and I felt that all this enthusiasm has turned to fear.”
The son of Megan Wild and Luciano Renaga was born with an important congenital heart defect.
Maria Ferreri Children Hospital
Infants born with hypoplastic left heart syndrome usually require multiple surgery in the first few years of life, but doctors discovered an additional complexity to wild and Renaga baby: between the right and left edges of the heart No communication.
The complexity limited the child’s prolonged survival opportunity, which was largely for surgery for the first surgery, Dr. According to, the head of the Pediatric Heart Surgery at Maria Ferry Children Hospital in Vallaha, New York, where Wilde was treated.
Given the diagnosis, Wilde chose to move forward with a new and complex operation which is known as a exhaust process.
The son of Megan Wild and Luciano Renaga was born with an important congenital heart defect.
Maria Ferry Children Hospital
In a exhaust process, the child is partially distributed and is still connected to the umbilical cord, working with the mother as a machine of her baby and lungs so that the doctor is fully born before it is born completely Can do procedures. In this case, while the child was mid-distribution, doctors needed to undergo open-horses, fixing communication between two sides of the child’s heart, and then continue with delivery.
On January 6, during an exit process, performed open-horses surgery successfully, resulting in the birth of Baby Luciano.
“It was successful, and the passage for other infants should also open, who have similar problems,” said about the procedure.
Less than 24 hours after his birth, Luciano finished first in a series of staged heart surgery.
The son of Megan Wild and Luciano Renaga was born with an important congenital heart defect.
Maria Ferry Children Hospital
Six weeks after his birth, Luciano is doing well and according to the two, is recovering according to both.
Wilde said, “I am very grateful to doctors and for everyone here (in Maria Ferry Children Hospital), that he rescued him and helped him come to the world,” Wilde said.
