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| Lu Yuanfang (center) during the prenatal examination at the Aviation General Hospital in Beijing on Wednesday. Lu and her son are currently under close observation at the hospital. (Zou Hong/ China Daily) |
"We were concerned that her uterus may not be able to contract during the surgery, because she has SMA. If such a thing had happened and led to a hemorrhage, we would have had to remove her womb. But fortunately her womb was fine," she said.
Also, fearing that anesthesia may cause malignant hyperthermia, a fatal muscular problem, the hospital said it had bought dantrolene, the special medicine to treat it that is not available in the Chinese market, from outside the country.
Though the surgery was successful, the hospital is keeping a close eye on Lu in the ICU for any health problems.
Her condition made the surgery much riskier than other Caesarean sections.
In order to avoid risks such as a possible violent change of blood pressure caused by regional anesthesia, surgeons decided to conduct general anesthesia on Lu, a kind of anesthesia that depresses a patient's respiratory system, according to An Jianxiong, the anesthetist for the surgery.
But Lu cannot open her mouth wide enough and had a chest deformity, making it hard for doctors to place the ventilation tube in her throat, he said.
"It would have been very dangerous if she hadn't been able to breathe in time under anesthetics," said the anesthetist.
Lu was very happy about the baby, said Gao.
"When she woke up and we told her she gave birth to a boy, she cried and thanked us," she said, adding that the case provides "very meaningful" experience for doctors conducting similar surgery in China in the future.
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