[tri-med] Re: "Intestinal Malrotation"


On Tuesday, December 17, 2002, at 03:05 AM, Bernard Kingori wrote:

>
> We would appreciate any ideas or experience related to this type 
> surgery to
> correct
> bowel obstruction from malrotation.

My daughter, Ivy had this surgery when she was 5 months old. She was 
about 6 pounds at the time. They had discovered her malrotation during 
an upper GI for reflux.

The surgery was long, about 5 hours. Her surgeon is one of our areas 
best. He tried to do the procedure laproscopicly but since she was so 
small, he had to resort to cutting her abdomen. At the time the 
incision was almost side to side. The scar has healed beautifully and 
now it looks like a roll in her tummy. We have not had the procedure 
reverse and have had it checked several times since it was done. All in 
all it will make things better, especially since it sounds like sarah 
is really having some symptoms of the condition. Ivy was not showing 
any of these outward signs, we really just "happened to see it" during 
the upper GI.  Good luck, I will keep you all in my thoughts.

Shannon, mom to Ivy, PT10q, age 6, Kadin, age 2, wife to David, 
Temecula CA

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