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 extremely rare congenital developmental deformity, known as Cantrell's pentad.
This condition was discovered by a foreign doctor named 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!"
