Lin Jie looked at the picture on his phone and couldn't help but exclaim in surprise, "Wow, the heart is outside the body!"
The photo showed a newborn baby. Normally, a person's heart is on the left side of the chest cavity, but this baby's heart was in the center of the chest cavity, protruding downwards, barely covered by a thin layer of skin.
Lin Jie knew this was an extrely rare congenital developntal deformity, known as Cantrell's pentad.
This condition was discovered by a foreign doctor nad Cantrell, and it includes five malformations: sternal defects; pericardial defects; diaphragm defects, allowing the large and small intestines to move upwards; abdominal muscle defects, causing the internal organs to bulge out; cardiovascular malformations!
"If I were still alive, this would be great. I've never handled such a case before. It's a really nice challenge!"
Shen Lanruo, intrigued by the rare case, couldn't help but comnt, then sighed and said, "The pity is, you can't get involved either. Not every doctor gets a chance with such a case."
Yang Leyi, seeing Lin Jie deep in thought, softly explained, "This is the child of a relative from my hotown. They finally had this child after a lot of effort, but who could have imagined this would happen!"
"They've been to several big hospitals in the provincial capital, and they've all said there's nothing they can do, that it's untreatable. Dr. Lin, you know the top doctors at Kangning Hospital. Could you help this child?"
Lin Jie thought for a mont and said, "Though such developntal deformities are extrely rare, there is hope for a cure through surgery."
"However, this involves a major surgery, requiring heart, general, and orthopedic surgeons to work together. The demands on doctors, especially heart surgeons, are exceptionally high and the difficulty level is extraordinary."
"Dr. Lin..."
Yang Leyi's tone was full of supplication.
Compared to Yang Leyi, Lin Jie had a certain level of doctor connections. Feeling sympathetic, he said, "Tell you what, send this child's information, and I'll reach out to see if any hospital can take on the case!"
The correction of this infant's developntal deformity focuses on heart surgery.
Based on Lin Jie's preliminary understanding of the capabilities of major hospitals in Binhai, there are only three hospitals capable of performing this heart deformity correction surgery: Kangning Hospital, Binhai University Affiliated Hospital, and Binhai Tongren Hospital.
Speaking of this, Lin Jie thought of another issue and said, "This surgery is not just any expense, plus there's no guarantee of success. Has your family mber prepared themselves ntally for this?"
Yang Leyi, sowhat emotionally, said, "My relatives have a small factory, so they can co up with several hundred thousand. Dr. Lin, thank you."
Lin Jie's personal connections contributed six to seven ten thousand sales to the clothing store, a pretty decent figure. Considering no more sales would co from there, he left the departnt store and headed straight to Kangning Hospital.
After asking the nurse, he found out that Hu Yuanqing was in the MRI room of the diagnostic building.
Lin Jie, without hesitation, strolled casually as if it was his own garden and went straight to the imaging room of the diagnostic building. He saw Hu Yuanqing sitting in front of the computer, examining a newly generated cranial image.
At this mont, Hu Yuanqing, speaking through the microphone, said to the patient lying in the MRI machine on the other side of the isolation window, "Mr. An, we're done. You can get up now!"
"Mr. An?"
The surna was quite uncommon. Lin Jie looked through the isolation window and was surprised to see that the man getting up in the examination gown was none other than An Weize.
"Lin Jie, why are you here?"
Hu Yuanqing noticed Lin Jie intruding and, seeing where his gaze was directed, said helplessly, "Since you've seen it, I won't hide it from you!"
"This patient is the one who signed a confidentiality agreent with us! His na is An Weize, and you must keep it a secret!"
"Well... follow first. I hope Mr. An doesn't bla the hospital for this!"
Hu Yuanqing was quite frustrated. This was a hospital's restricted area, accessible to doctors only!
But because he had previously brought Lin Jie here, the outer nurse rembered Lin Jie and let him pass without obstruction.
"Mr. An, this is Lin Jie, my assistant, part of my dical team. He..."
When An Weize saw Lin Jie, he was montarily stunned.
After listening to Hu Yuanqing's explanation, he smiled and waved his hand, saying, "Dr. Hu, there's no need to sign an additional confidentiality agreent with Lin Jie. I've known Lin Jie for a long ti, and our relationship is much deeper than you imagine!"
Saying that, he looked at Lin Jie and solemnly said, "Lin Jie, neither Kexin nor Keng knows about my condition; can you keep it a secret for ?"
Lin Jie nodded and solemnly stated, "Uncle An, no problem! But why hide it from them?"
An Weize smiled bitterly and said, "Their mother passed away from cancer a few years ago, and it took them a long ti to recover from the grief. If they knew I had a brain tumor, I'm afraid they couldn't bear it!"
Keeping the illness a secret from his closest ones, Lin Jie couldn't say whether this was good or bad. This was An Weize's personal choice, and all he could do now was respect his decision.
Seeing that An Weize and Lin Jie already knew each other and weren't pursuing the matter, Hu Yuanqing secretly breathed a sigh of relief and said with a smile, "Mr. An, you may not believe it, but with Lin Jie's involvent, my confidence in the success of your tumor surgery has increased significantly."
This statent surprised An Weize, making him take another look at Lin Jie.
After advising An Weize for a while, a nurse led him to change clothes, while Hu Yuanqing took Lin Jie into his office, saying, "You always have a purpose coming here, so go ahead and tell what's going on!"
Lin Jie didn't beat around the bush and directly pulled out the infant's information from his phone to show him.
"Oh, it's Cantrell's pentad!"
Hu Yuanqing's eyes lit up too, and he eagerly flipped through the pictures and examination data on the phone.
After reviewing it, he returned the phone to Lin Jie, looking troubled, said, "I understand what you an, but currently my competition with Hu Xinyi has reached a fever pitch, and our two departnts have never gotten along."
"It's more effective for you to speak to them yourself than for to intervene."
"I believe my brother will definitely be interested in this surgery. At our level, we all like challenges and special cases."
Lin Jie put away his phone, puzzled, and asked, "Aren't you both surnad Hu? Aren't you family? Why is the relationship so strained?"
Hu Yuanqing also looked helpless and said bitterly, "When work relations, interest relations, and family relations are intertwined, everything changes."
"Also, Lin Jie, do you know why, even to this day, Kangning Hospital only has cardiac and brain departnts?"
Lin Jie shook his head, indicating he didn't know.
"Previously, we also hired doctors from other departnts! But after working here for a while, they discovered the strong family managent style and the limited personal developnt prospects, so they all left."
Hu Yuanqing sighed, "The reason these two departnts continue their reputation is that our family mbers are holding it up. If future successors are missing, we might decline."
"You're probably not interested in this topic, so I won't bother you. Why don't you take a look at Mr. An's brain tumor images!"
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