After a very long time in the hospital — during which Xue Kai and her mother Chen Ning traveled all over the UK looking for help — they finally found a possible solution at Royal Stoke University Hospital, in Stoke-on-Trent, England.
“Kai was born with an abnormal lymphatic (淋巴的) system, and her left arm was very swollen,” Chen said. “Throughout her childhood we were under the care of a number of different hospitals to try to find out what the matter was, but nobody knew the cause.”
Xue’s attending physician at Royal Stoke was Dr. Mona Mossad, a nationally recognized expert in lymphatic interventions, whose first procedure was trying to improve lymphatic drainage (引流) which had never been done on a child before. After failing to improve Xue’s condition, Dr. Mossad sought to identify the source of the leak in the lymphatic system and found it was coming from a tiny hole in her liver. It resulted in lymphatic fluid leaking into her abdomen, applying extra pressure on her internal organs and causing swelling there and in other parts of the body.
Dr. Mossad’s surgery team went to work repairing the hole using a set of specialized, tiny needles filled with surgical adhesive (黏合剂). During the surgery, they were forced to remove an astonishing 7 gallons of lymphatic fluid from a small 13-year-old.
After 5 weeks of recovery, Xue Kai was given a clean bill of health. “We are all over the moon for Kai, who is the first child in world history to successfully undergo this treatment for Wild Syndrome, a condition so rare it’s only been documented 21 times,” said Dr. Yvonne Slater, who was part of Xue’s overall care team.
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