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Surgeons fixed Sultan's head shape

AiF. Dobroe Serdce

Charitable foundation · Moscow

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Friends, initially this gathering was held for little Vitya. In addition to the fusion of the sagittal suture, he had other dangerous diagnoses, which caused his death. Vitya's mother asked to send funds to a child with the same need. That's why your help came to the 5–year-old Sultan. The operation using titanium plates was successful. Thank you for your support.

The Sultan's skull was deformed from birth. The hospital did not pay attention to this. That year, the coronavirus was in full swing, and mom was asked once again not to go to the doctors with her child. The pathology was revealed only by the age of one and a half, when the "cosmetic" defect manifested itself as a lag in speech and motor skills.

- Many thanks to all the caring people for their help. This operation is vital, it was only surgically possible to restore my son 's health," says Angela. – After installing the plates, the head no longer resembles a squash in shape, it has become rounder.

As soon as the surgeons freed the brain from compression, Sultan began to turn into an ordinary child – agile, cheerful. He began to sing and dance when he heard music, although he had never done this before. In the first weeks after the operation, my mother noticed a leap in speech development, and my son began to grasp new words on the fly. He also stopped complaining of headaches and became more active.

With your help, the Sultan will develop without lagging behind, and his parents will be calm about their son's future. Thank you for that!

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The operation will fix Vitya's skull

Vitya has a complex pathology that manifests itself in the overgrowth of the inner nostrils, in exophthalmos and premature fusion of the sagittal suture of the skull. Surgical intervention is necessary - installation of a biodegradable plate.

Viti has Crouzon syndrome. This is an overgrowth of the inner nostrils: such that the baby could not breathe on his own, only on a ventilator. Then he will have a tracheostomy, and he will start breathing through it. And also exophthalmos: bulging eyes due to small sockets that "pop out from behind the eyelids," so that mom has to glue them during sleep, because Vitya himself cannot close them. And there is also a prematurely fused sagittal suture on the skull (and by the age of one, all the other sutures have fused together!), so the growing brain presses on the bones, thinning them, and the skull, in turn, puts pressure on the brain, preventing the baby from developing. You can fix this by performing an operation, during which surgeons will reposition the bones of the skull and fix them in a new position using a bioplast, freeing up space for the brain. It will also get better with the eyes.

After the operation, Vitya will be able to develop in age. Grow up and one day become an assistant to his father (who works as a veterinarian in the village) in their large farm – cows, pigs, sheep, chickens – and a protector to his sisters, who now adore playing with the baby.

We will help to pay for a special plate for the family, which is not provided under compulsory medical insurance, in order to have reconstructive surgery on Vitya's head.