EL PASO, TEXAS (KFOX14/CBS4) — After months of uncertainty and multiple procedures for a rare, life-threatening brain condition, an El Paso mother has brought her infant daughter home.
According to the El Paso Children’s Hospital, Erika Muñoz was 34 weeks pregnant when she learned that her unborn daughter, Darleth, had been diagnosed with Vein of Galen malformation, an extremely rare and life-threatening vascular condition affecting blood vessels in the brain.
“What it is is basically a large vein inside the head that is taking a lot of the blood from the heart,” said Dr. Ziyad Makoshi, medical director of pediatric neurosurgery at El Paso Children’s Hospital. “The heart is then having to pump additionally, and that is the issue that we run into early on. The heart starts to fail, so our cardiologists are extremely important to help stabilize these kids.”…