בניתוח מסובך שנערך בפרו,תוקן בהצלחה מום נדיר בפעוטה בת 13 חודשים. מילארגוס קרון נולדה עם רגלים מחוברות בצורת V,וזכתה לכינוי "בת הים הקטנה".הרופאים מדווחים שהם הצליחו להחזיר לה את יכולת התנועה בברך.

Doctors Separate Legs of 'Mermaid' Baby
LIMA, Peru Jun 1, 2005 — Doctors fully separated the fused legs of a baby girl known as Peru's "mermaid" early Wednesday, calling the delicate procedure a "true success."

Doctors performing the 4 1/2 hour surgery had planned to begin repairing the birth defect only up to the child's knees, but the procedure exceeded the expectations of the medical team.

"This is the final result that we have come to in this extraordinary surgical intervention," said Dr. Luis Rubio, holding up 13-month-old Milagros Cerron's legs in a V-shape, displaying the line of stitches extending up from her heels to her inner thighs. "We have mobility of the independent knee joints."


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Milagros' legs had been fused together from her thighs to her ankles when she was born.

"This surgical intervention has been a true success," Rubio said.

Hours before the surgery, Milagros, whose name means "miracles," giggled and played on her hospital bed while Rubio, leader of a team of 11 surgeons performing the operation, looked on.

Milagros was born with a rare congenital defect known as sirenomelia, or "mermaid syndrome," which occurs in one out of every 70,000 births.

There are only three known cases of children with the affliction alive in the world today, according to Rubio.

The surgery was televised live and was watched by the child's parents.

Milagros' father, Ricardo Cerron, 24, broke into tears as Rubio made the first incision at the start of the surgery late Tuesday. The baby's mother, Sara Arauco, 20, put her hand to her mouth. A nurse standing behind her chair put her hands on Arauco's shoulders.

But later, as the surgery progressed, Arauco said her prayers had been answered.

"Yes, this is a miracle," she told The Associated Press. "I know, even though I am a sinner, God has paid attention to me, maybe not for my sake, but for my daughter's."

Asked about the difficulty of watching the graphic images on the screen above her, she said, "I am strong. I am young."

The first sign that the operation was going well came 30 minutes into the surgery, when Rubio announced, "We have overcome the first difficulty."

http://abcnews.go.com/Health/wireStory?id=808593


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ומזמינה אותה לחופשת הבראה בעיר התיירות הידועה שבדרומה של ת"א. לחיאני מבטיח לך אזרחות כבוד.

“Much of the social history of the Western world over the past three decades has involved replacing what worked with what sounded good”

אני מכיר: נשמה תזמיני ניידת יש הרוגים.

"החיים זה מה שקורה לך בזמן שאתה קורא ציטוטים של אחרים"

(אח של מישהו שהכיר את ג'ון לנון)