Chapters Transcript Video Daya’s Mystery: What Was Causing a Young Girl's Internal Bleeding? The Dillon family seemed to be living the California dream enjoying the waterway just steps from their home yet for five years they were living a medical nightmare as day of their young daughter's illness went unresolved. She missed probably a year of school. I mean she would only go two or three days a week, half days because she just couldn't sustain the day. The energy dale was found to have internal bleeding. But for years no one could figure out from where or why. So we had four colonoscopies for endoscopy ease. She swallowed four pill cameras sat in every machine known command the angiogram and you name it, they couldn't find it. Finally, the family was referred to cedar Sinai where dr Quinn liu. A pediatric gi doctor specializes in advanced endoscopy is for Children we have these specialized scopes, these specialized cameras that allow us to go deep into the small intestines um whether from the top or bottom. But sometimes we can see the full, small intestines, especially if you go from the top and bottom like and meet in the middle. For example, if that's what's necessary. So for her, I knew that the likelihood of me finding something was towards the bottom part or the bottom half of her small intestines. So we prepared her for the endoscopy going from colon pathway to the small intestines were able to reach it. What dr lu found is known as Merkel's diverticular um an abnormal out patching of the intestine that usually disappears before birth. In days case it was large and bleeding but hadn't shown up on any of the previous tests, It required surgery. I have to make the decision at that point. Is it safe to proceed in a laproscopic manner or do I have to open one of the incisions just a little bit to get the intestine, not to be able to remove it. And in this particular case we did the ladder, we had to make one of her incisions just a little bit wider so that we could bring the intestine up. We had to cut that portion of intestine out and then sew the two ends together. Just weeks after her surgery Day is back to her old self, enjoying her arts and crafts. And of course the water every week has been transformative. I mean she's back in sports. She's on the water, she's in the ocean, she's active, she's taking the jet ski or the video out into the ocean to look on her face. She's happy Created by
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