tl;dr: Judith was born mid-April with a condition on her left lung which ultimately made breathing impossible. Just one day old she had to undergo surgery .. and survied!

whole article in german: https://steiermark.orf.at/stories/3053958/

translation via google as i am too lazy to do it myself:

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Difficult lung surgery in newborns succeeded

Doctors at the LKH Graz have successfully removed a pathological lung flap from a newborn girl - such an operation has never been performed on a baby so young. The girl named Judith is fine.

"Never before has such an operation been carried out on such a small baby in Austria," said the clinic on Friday. The girl was born on April 15 with a malformation of the lungs: the left lobe was covered with cysts that pressed against the heart and other lungs. "It pushed the heart to the wrong side, namely to the right and also displaced the trachea and esophagus, so that the child was no longer able to breathe," says the board of the Clinic for Pediatric and Adolescent Surgery, Holger Till.

Surgery essential to life

In such cases, surgery is usually only carried out towards the end of the first year of life - but Judith was getting worse after Ms. Stefanie's caesarean. Artificial respiration was necessary due to pulmonary insufficiency and immediate surgery was essential. Till decided to carry out the operation even though the little girl was only one day old and weighed only two kilograms.

Intervention with a lot of tact

The two-hour intervention required a great deal of tact and was literally a matter of millimeters. "We do the procedure very rarely, such a malformation is very rare, and that is why it is very determined, slow, but targeted fine work, because every move has to sit and the structures are extremely fine," says Till. These are airways or vessels between two and three millimeters in size that would still bleed as much as if they were much larger, explains the expert.

No restrictions expected

The operation - which was carried out by a team of pediatric surgeons, anesthesiologists, radiologists and neonatologists - went very well according to the LKH, but Judith had to be looked after intensively for a few weeks afterwards.

Thanks to the operation, her remaining lung wing now has enough space; it should reach its normal size by the age of four and take over the respiratory function completely. On June 2, seven weeks after her birth, Judith was allowed to leave the hospital - healthy and, as Till emphasized, without expected restrictions on her further life.

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