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Thread ID: 20176 | Posts: 2 | Started: 2005-09-12
2005-09-12 22:29 | User Profile
McLEAN, Va. - An infant born last month to a severely brain-damaged woman died Monday after emergency surgery to repair a perforated intestine.
Susan Anne Catherine Torres, born prematurely on Aug. 2 after her mother was on life support for three months, died of heart failure at Children's National Medical Center in Washington, a family statement said.
The infant's condition had deteriorated rapidly during the weekend, according to the family. The baby's prematurity led to an intestinal disorder and an infection that overwhelmed her body, and she died just after midnight, the hospital said.
Cancer patient Susan Rollin Torres, a 26-year-old researcher at the National Institutes of Health, suffered a stroke in May after melanoma spread to her brain. She was kept alive on life support so she could deliver the child.
A spokeswoman at St. Rita's Church in Alexandria said parishioners were told of the child's death during the morning Mass.
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2005-09-13 14:39 | User Profile
How awful. God be with them.