IL CAPO Posted November 9, 2004 Beijing - A baby girl was born in central China's Henan province with most of her organs in the opposite position of where they should have been, but she is in a good condition, state media said on Monday. The six-month-old's condition was not discovered until doctors found at a recent check-up that her heart, which should lie in the left side of her chest, was on the right. It was also seriously malformed, the Henan Newspaper Industries website said. The location of the atriums and ventricles in her heart was also reversed. Her lungs, stomach and liver were also not in the normal position, the report on the website run by the Henan Daily quoted doctors as saying. Her stomach, which should lie on the left side, was on the right and her liver, supposed to be on the right, was on the left. Normally a person's left lung has two parts and the right has three, but this was reversed in the Henan baby. "I have never seen such a baby in China before," said Fan Taibing, a paediatrician from a provincial health hospital for women and children, adding he had only read about one other such case. When the baby was born in Henan's capital Zhengzhou, her lips were purple and green and she was breathing rapidly. She grew slowly compared with other children. On October 29 doctors at the hospital performed an operation to correct the malformations, which had caused the baby to be sick. The operation did not harm her organs, which were functioning healthily, the report said. Masha Allah. Peace. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
