Wednesday, May 16, 2012

'Mermaid legs' Peruvian child needs kidney transplant

Milagros Cerron, a child from Peru known as the “mermaid baby”, is in urgent need of a kidney transplant.
Now eight years old, Milagros Cerron was dubbed the “mermaid baby” because her fused legs resembled the tail of a fish.
In 2005, when Milagros, whose name means miracles in Spanish, was nine-months-old, doctors began the first of three operations to separate her legs.
Seven-year-old Milagros survived sirenomelia, or mermaid syndrome — a rare, usually lethal congenital malformation that fused her legs – but now needs surgery to reconstruct her urinary tract. Sirenomelia is a very rare congenital deformity in which the legs are fused together, giving the appearance of a mermaid's tail.
The defect occurs in one out of every 70,000 pregnancies and there are only a three known cases of children with the condition alive in the world. Sironemelia is associated with kidney failure and gastrointestinal defects.

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4 comments:

Ekene said...

I go troway this one if na mi born am. God forbid bad thing.

Anonymous said...

This is strange. Quite strange.

Anonymous said...

God help us. Certain things are beyond us at times.

Anonymous said...

Hey Ekene....maybe someone should have thrown YOU away! Try the google her name....the surgery made her normal...too bad no surgery can fix people like you!