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Medical team saves Yi Yi's leg
By Jane Feng |
October 4, 2011, Tuesday
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THE toddler who survived July 23's fatal bullet train crash in Wenzhou, Zhejiang Province, will not lose her left leg, though it will be permanently impaired, doctors in Shanghai said yesterday.
The medical team treating Xiang Weiyi, known as Yi Yi, at Xinhua Hospital said her leg wound was clean and closed, and there was no longer any danger of the leg having to be amputated, East Radio reported yesterday.
"This may greatly help Yi Yi to walk independently even though leg deformity is unavoidable," a doctor said.
The 34-month-old was the last survivor of the train crash that killed 40 people and injured nearly 200.
She was trapped in the wreckage for about 21 hours, and her parents both died in the accident.
She was moved to the hospital on August 22 from one in Zhejiang.
Yi Yi has had six operations to remove damaged or infected tissue from her leg wound and several skin transplants.
Doctors said that the muscles below her left knee were likely to degenerate due to nerve damage and lack of exercise, but the preservation of her leg meant that conditions were good for the fitting of artificial support devices.
"Yi Yi's left leg is very difficult to completely recover because of a paralysis of the neural system," a doctor said.
"Her left leg below the knee has lost the ability to move, and will deform in the future. The target now is to reduce the severity of deformity."
Yi Yi's nurses said she was recovering well and she had been outdoors every day when weather permitted.
Xiang Yuyu, her uncle, said that Yi Yi had already started learning to walk again with the support of doctors and her family.
"Her steps were staggered, but she has undoubtedly made a new step in life. Yi Yi bravo!" he wrote in the most recent entry to his microblog about Yi Yi.
The medical team treating Xiang Weiyi, known as Yi Yi, at Xinhua Hospital said her leg wound was clean and closed, and there was no longer any danger of the leg having to be amputated, East Radio reported yesterday.
"This may greatly help Yi Yi to walk independently even though leg deformity is unavoidable," a doctor said.
The 34-month-old was the last survivor of the train crash that killed 40 people and injured nearly 200.
She was trapped in the wreckage for about 21 hours, and her parents both died in the accident.
She was moved to the hospital on August 22 from one in Zhejiang.
Yi Yi has had six operations to remove damaged or infected tissue from her leg wound and several skin transplants.
Doctors said that the muscles below her left knee were likely to degenerate due to nerve damage and lack of exercise, but the preservation of her leg meant that conditions were good for the fitting of artificial support devices.
"Yi Yi's left leg is very difficult to completely recover because of a paralysis of the neural system," a doctor said.
"Her left leg below the knee has lost the ability to move, and will deform in the future. The target now is to reduce the severity of deformity."
Yi Yi's nurses said she was recovering well and she had been outdoors every day when weather permitted.
Xiang Yuyu, her uncle, said that Yi Yi had already started learning to walk again with the support of doctors and her family.
"Her steps were staggered, but she has undoubtedly made a new step in life. Yi Yi bravo!" he wrote in the most recent entry to his microblog about Yi Yi.
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