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Emička Křížková saw the light of day for the first time at the beginning of June this year in the maternity hospital U Sluneční brány in Hořovice and she is very happy. And why is this little girl so special? The reason is that she was born to a mother who suffers from ulcerative colitis. This is a disease that manifests itself in intestinal inflammation, which complicates the life of the patient, making it difficult to conceive and give birth.
Mrs. Tereza Křížková (28), the proud mother of Emicka, has been a patient of the surgical department of the Hořovice hospital for a long time and in 2014-15, under the supervision of the surgical team of MUDr. Richard Sequens, MUDr. Pavel Sedlacek and MUDr. Luděk Polák, she underwent several surgeries due to inflammation of the colon (ulcerative colitis). Thanks to the facilities and comprehensive multidisciplinary care at the hospital in Horovice, as part of a new programme for patients diagnosed with colon disease, the patient was able to undergo a complex surgical solution, culminating in a caesarean section in collaboration with an obstetrician and an operating surgeon specialising in bowel disease.
"This is the first patient who was able to benefit from the high-tech equipment and comprehensive professional approach of the surgical and anaesthesiological team and other departments of the Hořovice Maternity Hospital. With this comprehensive care, our hospital can rank among the specialised departments of university clinics at home and abroad," says MUDr. Pavel Sedlaček with a certain amount of pride.
"We try to reassure women suffering from ulcerative colitis and Crohn's disease, who have undergone several difficult operations, that they can bring a healthy baby into the world," explains Richard Sequens, M.D., PhD. This physician has 20 years of experience treating young women who suffer from idiopathic inflammatory bowel disease and notes that these deliveries are done with the assistance of obstetricians and a surgeon who specializes in inflammatory bowel disease. "Deliveries of pregnant women with intestinal inflammation are conducted by caesarean section. And since these women often have several surgeries under their belts, you need the presence of an experienced surgeon who will perform a sensitive procedure to ensure that their bowels are not injured during delivery," adds the Gorovice doctor.
The proof of this is Mrs. Tereza Křížková from Prague, a financial analyst by profession, who on Tuesday, June 7, in the maternity hospital U Sluneční brány, gave birth to a small and hungry Emicka, who weighed 3.2 kg and measured 46 cm. Mrs. Křížková, although exhausted from the birth, was beaming with satisfaction. She expressed her gratitude for the care she received at the hospital and, as she says, "I don't feel like I'm in a hospital here at all". She also praised the doctors and nurses involved in her delivery and the opportunity to stay in a single room. "Here I really got the peace I needed before and after giving birth," says Mrs Křížková.
