Intestines and other things

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Hi ,

My daughter, Amita, had malrotation of her intestines which was found

very early on when she was 2 wks. They corrected it by doing a Ladd

procedure which is basically rearranging the positions of her

intestines into an inverted N type of a thing. Basically her surgeon

felt that there could be volvulus (spelling?) later on and it may be

too late by the time we got her to the hospital. Well, since they did

do this the surgeon consulted us and went ahead and removed her

appendix too since her tummy was now in a different place. (There

could be potential misunderstandings later in her life if she got

appendicitis and the pain would now occur in a different spot!!!)

Yes, this is a CHARGE thing. There was a paper out a long time ago

which chronicled many charge abnormalities and this was one of them.

Which brings me to a pet theory of mine, I may be totally wrong, but

here goes... Malrotation of Intestines, Colobomas (cleft in eye), ear

Abnormalities due to Cochlear Abnormalities (insufficient turns etc.

in cochlea), Heart abnormalities due to arteries and such going the

wrong way....Seems to me there is something about the

rotation/turning etc. theme here. Just a thought!!

Glad to hear the good news about Nickie, I was on pins and needles

till my Amita was extubated successfully back in Jan.

Deepta