Fernanda Martinez's initial symptoms were so subtle that she and her mom had planned to sightseeing before she crashed.
When Margarita Martinez picked up daughter Fernanda after summer camp in August 2022, she had a cough. The two hoped to sightsee in New York City before returning home to Mexico City. But a day later, Fernanda woke up sick, and instead they visited an urgent care clinic.
She was tested again for COVID-19 and tested positive — it the first time anyone in her family had had it. But doctors didn’t think it was the cause of Fernanda’s dramatic decline. They soon learned what was to blame: a rare, cancerous tumor on her trachea.Cough quickly becomes worse Dr. Robert Cerfolio often performs robotic minimally invasive surgery on adult cardiothoracic patients. Fernanda Martinez's type of trachea tumor is so rarely found in children that he performed surgery on her to remove it. She didn't need chemotherapy or radiation.Doctors wanted to keep her in the hospital, and suddenly Martinez met a slew of specialists, including an adult cardiothoracic surgeon who explained what he was going to do to remove the mass.
“Our adult colleagues in interventional pulmonary are more familiar with acting upon masses within the trachea because they are so rare in childhood,” she says. “It was a natural connection to work with them to biopsy and reduce the bulk tremendously.” Doctors often use ECMO for patients who are struggling to get “enough blow flow or oxygen to their body, usually due to some severe but revisable illness,” Fisher explains, and ventilators alone can’t help because the patient’s lungs are so weak.
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