He risked his life for a child

A pregnant woman with an incredibly rare disease of the heart had to wait three weeks for an operation to allow your baby to get stronger. Only in this case he had a chance to survive.

When a woman is expecting a baby put before a choice concerning her health and baby's life, most often choose the latter. 32-year-old Suzanne Mackenzie was the victim myxoma   - Very dangerous benign tumors of the heart That is able to kill a man almost instantaneously. Typically, these tumors are removed by doctors immediately after the discovery, because every expectation here is fraught with fatal consequences.

Yet Mixes   Susan had discovered at the time when the woman was in the 30th week of pregnancy. And for a successful heart surgery she first needed a caesarean section. And in this period, it would become fatal to a child. Susan put before a choice, and she did not hesitate, decided to wait for her future baby does not get stronger enough.

Dragged long three weeks, during which the brave Englishwoman could die at any moment, as myxoma   capable of causing a stroke at his victim. In such a case would have died, and my mother and the unborn child. But luckily she managed to bring her pregnancy to 32 weeks, which is enough to give birth to a healthy baby. Initially, surgeons performed a caesarean section, and was born a boy, happy parents named Felix.

A few days passed and heart surgery his mother, too, was successful. This event was so rare that it was officially named the first in the history of medicine, the UK and the fifth worldwide. Doctors almost never encountered tumors of the heart   in pregnant women.

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