Glue helped save the life of baby
Filed under: New Born — Alan @ 4:57 am
During Dafi Evans birth doctors used a form of superglue called Histoacryl to plug up a hole that had formed in his brain and would have caused his death within a few days of his birth.
The leak in his brain is part of a condition known as Vein of Galen malformation and is a condition in which the veins and arteries in the brain are missing capillaries that help increase the blood flow. As a result of the problem the brain is not able to absorb enough nutrients or oxygen.
Most of the time this leads to death due to stress on the heart or water that forms in the brain.
However, 16 months after his birth Dafi is now on par with a normal development path and his parents are sure that he was a miracle.
According to his mother, Catrin Evans, it is hard to look at Dafi now and believe that he is doing so well given that the operation was extremely dangerous but seemed so simple with only a simple cut required.
Evans first knew of the condition in her child when a scan showed that there was a dark patch on his brain and doctors informed her that there was not much hope her son would survive.
The procedure to seal the brain involves placing a catheter through the groin area and stringing it up to the brain area where the “superglue” is squeezed out.
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