Milagros Cerron, a child from Peru known as the “mermaid baby”, is in urgent need of a kidney transplant.
She is presently eight years old, Milagros Cerron was named the “mermaid baby” because her fused legs resembled the tail of a fish.
In 2005, when Milagros, whose name means miracles in Spanish, was nine-months-old, doctors began the first of three operations to separate her legs.
Eight-year-old Milagros survived sirenomelia, or mermaid syndrome — a
rare, usually lethal congenital malformation that fused her legs – but
now needs surgery to reconstruct her urinary tract.
The defect occurs in
one out of every 70,000 pregnancies and there are only a three known
cases of children with the condition alive in the world.
Sironemelia is
associated with kidney failure and gastrointestinal defects.
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