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Gastroschisis
10 min read
Also known as: abdominal wall defect · abdominal cleft · open abdomen · abdominal wall splitting · laparoschisis · gastroschisis · congenital abdominal wall defect · abdominal malformation · umbilical cord hernia
Your Body Is Speaking
A child comes into the world, and its abdominal wall is not fully closed. A part of the inner organs — intestine, sometimes stomach or liver — lies exposed, unprotected, outside the body. What should be safely held within shows itself already at birth, turned outward. Paediatric surgery can treat this well today, and most children develop completely healthily after the procedure.
And yet a question remains that reaches beyond the medical: what is being expressed when a small body does not hold back its innermost contents? When what should be protected seeks its way outward — before the first conscious breath begins?
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