“She’s shown us from the very beginning that she was a fighter.”
does not develop correctly. The malformation or VOGM causes an enormous amount of blood stressing the vein and the heart. It can lead to multiple health problems—including heart failure or brain damage that lead to death.
During Derek and Kenyatta Coleman’s 30-week ultrasound, doctors noticed something unusual, despite what had been a normal pregnancy. The fetus’s brain and heart were enlarged and more investigation led to a VBOM diagnosis.run by Brigham and Women’s and Boston Children’s despite the risks of preterm labor or brain hemorrhaging for the fetus. The team performed the surgery at 34 weeks of pregnancy to repair the malformation while the baby was still in-utero.
Kenyatta was slowly leaking amniotic fluid and went into labor two days after the surgery. On March 17, Denver Coleman was born, weighing 4 pounds and 1 ounce. , Denver was very stable in the immediate newborn period and did not need any immediate treatments like placing more coils or medication to support her heart function.“The best part was when she was born, just seeing her in the NICU be fine and, you know, we would all sort of look at each other and pinch ourselves,” Darren Orbach, a Boston Children’s Hospital physician,. “We were not sure when it was OK to celebrate because you just don’t see that with these babies.
Baby Denver continues to do well almost two months after the surgery and is not taking any heart failure, her neurological exam is normal, and there are no indications that she needs any additional medical interventions. “She’s shown us from the very beginning that she was a fighter,”
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