Adorable Baby Marks MAJOR Medical Miracle


MIAMI — A lady who was given a new liver, pancreas, stomach and tiny and vast intestine during a Miami sanatorium in 2007 has delivered a healthy baby girl, believed to be a initial famous box of a five-organ transplant studious giving birth.

Fatema Al Ansari, 26, pronounced Wednesday she was vivacious after giving birth by cesarean territory Feb. 26. She hold a sleeping child during a entertainment with reporters Wednesday during a same hospital, Jackson Memorial, where she had transplant medicine in 2007.

“It’s a tough feeling to express,” a smiling mom said, kindly cradling her daughter Alkadi Alhayal, who had weighed 4 pounds 7 ounces on arrival. “It’s a best feeling in a world,” she pronounced in Arabic, her difference translated by an interpreter.

Snuggled in a white sweeping and white cap, a child slept sensitively in her mother’s arms while her relatives addressed reporters’ questions with her doctors.

The woman, who lives in Qatar and skeleton to lapse home in entrance weeks, was there during 19 when she was diagnosed with a blood clot in a vital capillary to a intestine – requiring transplant surgery.

Just over 600 five-organ transplants have been accessible as of 2011, according to a latest total accessible from a Intestinal Transplant Association.

The many new annual news by a National Transplantation Pregnancy Registry also indicates she is a initial reported box of a five-organ transplant studious in a universe to give birth.

Dr. Shalih Y. Yasin, a woman’s obstetrician , pronounced there have been some cases in Europe of births by transplant patients who had dual viscera “but not five.”

“We have searched all medical novel all over a universe for any pregnancy that had 5 multi-transplants and this is a initial box to a knowledge,” pronounced a alloy with a University of Miami Health System.

Yasin pronounced an adult with 5 transplanted viscera who is amply healthy to even cruise carrying a child “is a spectacle by itself.”

Al Ansari was forced to cancel a prior pregnancy early on after her diagnosis, that done her consider she would never be means to get pregnant. She pronounced her husband, Khalifa Alhayal, gave her wish to comprehend her dream and they became relatives by in vitro fertilization.

Her new pregnancy was deliberate high-risk and she was monitored closely by her group of transplant doctors and gynecologists in Miami.

She did not have an infection during her pregnancy, as her doctors had prepared for, though she faced teenager complications including a flu, some draining and earthy annoy from her flourishing baby.

“It’s not an easy pregnancy to go through,” Yasin said. “One has to make certain a transplant organ is not rejected, that a drugs are protected to a baby.”

Experts remarkable a aberration of a case.

“While we have a good success rate to get patients to tarry and behind to normal, roughly nothing of them go on to bear children,” pronounced Dr. Thomas Fishbein, Executive Director during a Georgetown Transplant Institute, who was not partial of Al Ansari’s medical team.

He pronounced he has seen multi-organ patients go by pregnancy, though not five-organ transplants.

“So this is really good news for a field,” he said, observant a series of patients who have had successful bowel transplants is really tiny since of problem in achieving stable, long-term acceptance of that organ.

Al Ansari’s doctors pronounced she is in fact healthy adequate to try for a second baby. And they pronounced her box also offers some wish to other multi-organ transplant patients.

“We wanted to contend that this was a really tough decision,” pronounced Al Ansari’s husband, also vocalization by an interpreter. “But we wanted to give wish to other people who have transplants and give them a chance, too.”

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  • Fatema Al Ansari, Alkadi Alhayal, Khalifa Alhayal, Salih Yasin

    Fatema Al Ansari of Qatar, left, front, looks on as Dr. Salih Yasin, second from left, adjusts a wardrobe of her baby Alkadi Alhayal, center, hold by her father Khalifa Alhayal, right, during a news discussion during Jackson Memorial Hospital, Wednesday, Mar 13, 2013, in Miami. Al Ansari was diagnosed with a condition called mesenteric thrombosis during age 19, causing her abdominal viscera to fail. She is a initial multivisceral transplant studious in a universe to detect and give birth. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky)

  • Fatema Al Ansari, Alkadi Alhayal, Khalifa Alhayal,

    Fatema Al Ansari of Qatar, left, binds her baby Alkadi Alhayal, as her father Khalifa Alhayal, right, looks on during a news discussion during Jackson Memorial Hospital, Wednesday, Mar 13, 2013, in Miami. Al Ansari was diagnosed with a condition called mesenteric thrombosis during age 19, causing her abdominal viscera to fail. She is a initial multivisceral transplant studious in a universe to detect and give birth. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky)

  • Fatema Al Ansari, Alkadi Alhayal,

    Fatema Al Ansari of Qatar, left, places her baby Alkadi Alhayal in a hiker following a news discussion during Jackson Memorial Hospital, Wednesday, Mar 13, 2013, in Miami. Al Ansari was diagnosed with a condition called mesenteric thrombosis during age 19, causing her abdominal viscera to fail. She is a initial multivisceral transplant studious in a universe to detect and give birth. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky)

  • Fatema Al Ansari, Alkadi Alhayal, Khalifa Alhayal,

    Fatema Al Ansari of Qatar, left, binds her baby Alkadi Alhayal, as her father Khalifa Alhayal, right, looks on during a news discussion during Jackson Memorial Hospital, Wednesday, Mar 13, 2013, in Miami. Al Ansari was diagnosed with a condition called mesenteric thrombosis during age 19, causing her abdominal viscera to fail. She is a initial multivisceral transplant studious in a universe to detect and give birth. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky)

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