Girl saved after being born with gut in place of lung
Child, 17 mts, gets transplant in Turin
06 Aprile 2021
TURIN, APR 6 - A 17-month-olf girl had a lifesaving
operation in Turin Monday after being born with a rare
congenitial malformation that had placed part of her intestine
where one of her lungs should have been.
The girl had two operations, the first to correct her diaphragm
and the second to transplant a new liver.
Both the girl, Daria Maria, and the donor had had COVID-19.
The operations took place in Turin s Città della Salute
Hospital. The rare malformation leads to a full-blown hole in the
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