US medics say Niu Niu doing amazingly well
By Xu Wenwen |
August 25, 2011, Thursday
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The toddler saved after falling from her 10th floor apartment is making an amazing recovery, American doctors said following a remote diagnosis yesterday.
Experts from University of California, Los Angeles had a half-hour consultation with two-year-old Zhang Fangyu yesterday at 8am Beijing time, via remote video.
The little girl - better known as Niu Niu - fell out of her family's apartment window in Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, on July 2.
She was caught by passerby Wu Juping, whose outstretched arms broke the child's fall and almost certainly saved her life.
Niu Niu is currently in the No. 2 Hospital of Zhejiang University's School of Medicine and is making great progress, say medical staff.
She now can stand with a walker for almost a minute, and can move her left toes a little. Her vision has returned to normal levels and all her fractures have healed.
However, her left leg remains weak, she can only walk a little with a walker, and her left fingers can bend but not stretch, due to muscle and nerve damage, said Zhang Jianmin from the hospital's neurosurgery department.
Orthopedists at the hospital were considering surgery to tackle the problem, and asked UCLA consultants for a second opinion.
The American doctors believe it is not that imperative for this surgery to take place.
She is still recovering and when she cannot recover any more, which suggests the condition takes a turn for the worse, then surgery can take place, William Oppenheim, Professor of Pediatric Orthopedics at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, said via remote video.
American doctors told Shanghai Daily via video that Wu, who caught the girl, is a hero.
"She helped break the fall, and that's a very important factor in why the girl is recovering so incredibly," said Perry Shieh, a clinical neurophysiologist at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center.
Wu, aged 31-year-old, suffered a serious arm fracture in the incident.
Experts from University of California, Los Angeles had a half-hour consultation with two-year-old Zhang Fangyu yesterday at 8am Beijing time, via remote video.
The little girl - better known as Niu Niu - fell out of her family's apartment window in Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, on July 2.
She was caught by passerby Wu Juping, whose outstretched arms broke the child's fall and almost certainly saved her life.
Niu Niu is currently in the No. 2 Hospital of Zhejiang University's School of Medicine and is making great progress, say medical staff.
She now can stand with a walker for almost a minute, and can move her left toes a little. Her vision has returned to normal levels and all her fractures have healed.
However, her left leg remains weak, she can only walk a little with a walker, and her left fingers can bend but not stretch, due to muscle and nerve damage, said Zhang Jianmin from the hospital's neurosurgery department.
Orthopedists at the hospital were considering surgery to tackle the problem, and asked UCLA consultants for a second opinion.
The American doctors believe it is not that imperative for this surgery to take place.
She is still recovering and when she cannot recover any more, which suggests the condition takes a turn for the worse, then surgery can take place, William Oppenheim, Professor of Pediatric Orthopedics at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, said via remote video.
American doctors told Shanghai Daily via video that Wu, who caught the girl, is a hero.
"She helped break the fall, and that's a very important factor in why the girl is recovering so incredibly," said Perry Shieh, a clinical neurophysiologist at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center.
Wu, aged 31-year-old, suffered a serious arm fracture in the incident.
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