Modern Express News (correspondent Liu Min Cheng Shouqin reporter Mei Shuhua) On December 29, Dongzhou Cairen of the Varitan Orphans Welfare School in Zaduo County, Yushu Prefecture, Qinghai, came to Nanjing, where this 13-year-old boy who lost his hearing from his right ear and missing his outer ear will fulfill his "dream of making ears." The next day, after a multidisciplinary consultation, the Zhongda Hospital affiliated to Southeast University determined a plan for him, and a phase of surgery will be performed in January 2020.
△ Eastern Zhou Cairen who is reading a book
"Be sure to help this child so that he has the same ears as a normal person."
This dream journey originated from Mr. Wu Suhua, who is a "good citizen of Nanjing" and was once selected as a "person who touched Nanjing". In July 2017, Wu Lao noticed Dong Zhou Cairen, a Tibetan boy with missing right ear, at the Varitan Orphans Welfare School in Zaduo County, Yushu Prefecture, Qinghai.
Principal Qun Yingran Zhou introduced that Cai Ren is a bitter child, from a single-parent family, his mother went out to work, raised by his grandmother (Tibetan called grandma is also a grandmother), and there is a younger brother and a younger sister in the family, and the family is very poor. Cai Ren lost his hearing in his right ear since he was a child, and his outer ear was mutilated, and he only relied on his left ear to maintain his hearing. These make Cairen a bit lonely, usually do not like to talk, and rarely see play with other classmates, although he has been psychologically counseled, but he can still feel his inferiority. After listening to Cai Ren's experience, Elder Wu secretly made up his mind, "We must help this child and let him have the same ears as normal people." ”
After returning to Nanjing, Wu Lao, after many efforts to find a choice, finally found the Zhongda Hospital affiliated to Southeast University this summer. In terms of treatment costs, the ear reconstruction charity project of Jiangsu Ruihua Charity Foundation in CUHK hospital was fully resolved. The Jiangsu Charity Foundation Federation also gave financial support for transportation, accommodation, living expenses and other expenses.
At 5 p.m. on December 29, Cai Ren and his party arrived in Nanjing, and he saw this group of well-wishers who were eager to help him, although they were a little shy, they still kept expressing their gratitude, "Thank you, thank you, I am looking forward to it." ”
Multidisciplinary consultation, 90-year-old professor personally involved
△ Present the pennant
It is reported that external ear reconstruction is a "star project" of the Burn Plastic Surgery Department of CUHK Hospital, and has successfully completed more than 2,000 exceptional ear reconstruction surgeries for patients with ear defects across the country.
At 8:30 a.m. on December 30, CUHK Held a Multidisciplinary Consultation. Leng Yongcheng, a well-known burn plastic surgery expert and 90-year-old professor, also rushed to the consultation site, and after checking and inquiring about Cai Ren's situation with various doctors, he suggested, "The patient's right external auricles are missing, which is congenital microtia, which belongs to the 3rd degree microtia." Depending on the patient's situation and the shortest possible treatment time, it was decided to perform external ear reconstruction surgery for the patient. ”
Since Cai Ren is only 13 years old, Qiao Lixing, the director of pediatrics, also participated in the consultation, and he suggested that "pediatricians will also evaluate the patient's psychosomatic development, and in the process of treatment, cooperate with plastic surgeons to guide medication." In addition, the psychiatrist assessed Cai Ren's psychological condition, and then psychological counseling for his inferiority complex.
"Sculptural" ear making, hearing problems can not fall
How can you create a "realistic" ear? Wang Lei, director of plastic surgery at CUHK Hospital, introduced that the external ear reconstruction surgery is to use the direct burial method, take rib cartilage implanted behind the ear, and according to the normal side of the ear, carve out the ear of the affected side, the ear at this time is not very "realistic". After half a year, it is also necessary to take skin grafts on the chest and implant rib cartilage again to add a "base" to the "lying ear" and let it "stand up". At this point, the ears are basically formed. Wait another six months and trim your ears again. It takes more than a year to build an ear.
The appearance of the ear problem is solved, how to repair the hearing? Feng Xu, deputy director of the Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery of CUHK Hospital, said that the preliminary examination of Cairen's ear found that "the patient's right ear does not have an external ear canal, but because the left ear is normal, it has not had a great impact on his language development." It is recommended that after admission, through CT and other examinations, check the development of the inside of the ear, and conduct a hearing assessment to check whether there is residual hearing in the right ear. After external ear reconstruction surgery, external ear canal plasty may be considered. ”