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Baby thrives after becoming Oklahoma's first for new surgery

 
BY SUSAN SIMPSON | Published: November 25, 2009    Comment on this article Leave a comment

University of Oklahoma surgeons used a new surgical technique to repair a Lawton newborn’s malformed esophagus.

photo - Michael and Ketina Cruz with their baby Daniela, who had surgery at OU Medical Center to repair her malformed esophagus. PHOTO BY GRAYSON COOK, THE OKLAHOMAN
Michael and Ketina Cruz with their baby Daniela, who had surgery at OU Medical Center to repair her malformed esophagus. PHOTO BY GRAYSON COOK, THE OKLAHOMAN

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Daniela Cruz was born Nov. 4 with a congenital birth defect called esophageal atresia. Her upper esophagus failed to connect with her lower esophagus, which instead connected to her airway or windpipe.

Although Daniela looked like a normal 6-pound baby, parents Michael and Ketina Cruz quickly knew something was wrong because she couldn’t eat without choking. She was transported from a Lawton hospital to The Children’s Hospital at OU Medical Center.

"It’s a rare and lethal condition but completely curable with surgery,” OU Health Sciences Center physician Niki Puffinbarger said during a news conference Tuesday.

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