iOS - Android Khloe, who weighed a healthy 7lb 6oz, had scored top marks at birth in the Apgar test – used to assess a baby’s pulse, reaction and breathing.But her blood had continued to circulate as it did in her mother’s womb, causing too much of it to bypass the lungs.
This put a potentially deadly strain on her heart and left her whole body lacking in oxygen.The condition, persistent pulmonary hypertension in newborns (PPHN), baffled doctors at Wishaw General, where she arrived two weeks late on March 7, and she was rushed to the Royal Hospital for Children in Glasgow.Khloe, who also had a hole in her heart, spent the next week sedated and hooked up to full life-support as medics battled to keep her alive.
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