• Latest
  • Trending
  • All
  • News
  • Business
  • Lifestyle
‘She’s a Miracle’: Baby Gets In-Utero Treatment for Deadly Disorder That Took Both of Her Sisters

‘She’s a Miracle’: Baby Gets In-Utero Treatment for Deadly Disorder That Took Both of Her Sisters

November 17, 2022
EXCLUSIVE: VA Sec Says Days Of Unions, Contractors Owning His Agency Are Over

EXCLUSIVE: VA Sec Says Days Of Unions, Contractors Owning His Agency Are Over

June 13, 2025
LA News Outlet Caught In Lie That ICE Targeted Pregnant Woman. It Really Went After Her Illegal Husband.

LA News Outlet Caught In Lie That ICE Targeted Pregnant Woman. It Really Went After Her Illegal Husband.

June 13, 2025
‘My Blood Is Boiling’: Dem Strategist Melts Down Over Alex Padilla Getting Booted From Noem Presser

‘My Blood Is Boiling’: Dem Strategist Melts Down Over Alex Padilla Getting Booted From Noem Presser

June 13, 2025
SHOSHANA BRYEN: Israel Has Rights Beyond The ‘Right To Exist’

SHOSHANA BRYEN: Israel Has Rights Beyond The ‘Right To Exist’

June 13, 2025
‘Everyone Move, Now!’: Fox News Crew Takes Cover Live On-Air As Iran Launches Counter Strikes Against Israel

‘Everyone Move, Now!’: Fox News Crew Takes Cover Live On-Air As Iran Launches Counter Strikes Against Israel

June 13, 2025
Officials Fear ‘Potential Tiananmen Square Moment’ at Military Parade

Officials Fear ‘Potential Tiananmen Square Moment’ at Military Parade

June 13, 2025
‘Highly Partisan’ Official Fired By Trump Quits Anyway — After Smithsonian Attempted To Keep Her

‘Highly Partisan’ Official Fired By Trump Quits Anyway — After Smithsonian Attempted To Keep Her

June 13, 2025
Tim Kaine Really Upset About Alex Padilla Being Tossed From Kristi Noem Presser

Tim Kaine Really Upset About Alex Padilla Being Tossed From Kristi Noem Presser

June 13, 2025
Migrants Escape New Jersey Immigration Detention Center

Migrants Escape New Jersey Immigration Detention Center

June 13, 2025
Video Shows ICE Agents Letting Man Go After Neighbors Interrupt Raid

Video Shows ICE Agents Letting Man Go After Neighbors Interrupt Raid

June 13, 2025
Personal Data of Immigrant Medicaid Enrollees Given to Deportation Officials

Personal Data of Immigrant Medicaid Enrollees Given to Deportation Officials

June 13, 2025
EXCLUSIVE: Dem Rep Takes ‘Fake’ Phone Call To Dodge Question About LA Riots

EXCLUSIVE: Dem Rep Takes ‘Fake’ Phone Call To Dodge Question About LA Riots

June 13, 2025
  • Donald Trump
  • State of the Union
  • Elon Musk
  • Tariffs
  • Congress
  • Faith
  • Immigration
Friday, June 13, 2025
  • Login
IJR
  • Politics
  • US News
  • Commentary
  • World News
  • Faith
  • Latest Polls
No Result
View All Result
IJR
No Result
View All Result
Home FaithTap

‘She’s a Miracle’: Baby Gets In-Utero Treatment for Deadly Disorder That Took Both of Her Sisters

by Western Journal
November 17, 2022
in FaithTap, News
250 2
0
‘She’s a Miracle’: Baby Gets In-Utero Treatment for Deadly Disorder That Took Both of Her Sisters
491
SHARES
1.4k
VIEWS
Share on FacebookShare on Twitter

Childhood diseases are a special sort of terrible, preying upon the youngest and most innocent. Parents who have walked that difficult road alongside their children have been through their own trials by fire.

But when all of a couple’s children suffer from the same rare, deadly genetic condition, it can be difficult to find hope.

[firefly_embed]

[/firefly_embed]

Sobia Qureshi and Zahid Bashir of Ottawa, Ontario, had experienced the devastating loss of daughters Zara and Sara at 2 years old and 8 months old, respectively, according to The New York Times.

The rare condition that took their daughters is known as infantile-onset Pompe’s disease and is “one of several rare lysosomal storage disorders that can severely damage major organs before birth,” according to the University of California, San Francisco.

Babies born with the disorder typically have larger hearts than usual and usually don’t make it to 2 years of age. Only 1 in every 100,000 babies born has Pompe, and though there are treatments available after birth to replace the missing enzyme that causes the disease, it’s usually too late.

[firefly_embed]

[/firefly_embed]

Sobia discovered that she was pregnant again and that her third child also had Pompe — but then came a glimmer of hope: There was an in-utero treatment available for the deadly disease.

“I found out [the therapy] was a possibility and I was kind of in shock; I couldn’t believe it,” Zahid said, according to a news release from the UCSF Department of Surgery on Nov. 9. “I only really started believing it when meetings were being set up to move it forward.”

A doctor at the university had discovered that treating the condition in-utero had a much more promising success rate, but the problem was that it was early 2020 and the Bashirs couldn’t travel from their home in Canada to UCSF because of the pandemic.

[firefly_embed]

[/firefly_embed]

Thankfully, the doctor — pediatric surgeon Tippi MacKenzie — was willing to work with others closer to the Bashirs to give their third daughter, Ayla, a real shot at life.

“We shared our treatment protocol with the doctors in Canada, and they got local approval to proceed with the treatment,” MacKenzie said. “Together with Pompe experts at Duke University, we all met by video every week to discuss care for the mother and fetus throughout the pregnancy.

[firefly_embed]

[/firefly_embed]

“The specific thing with infantile-onset Pompe is that heart disease typically starts in utero. So, with this patient, we were able to see the improvement in the lack of development of heart disease in the treated fetus, compared to a sibling who was also diagnosed before birth and who developed severe thickening of the heart muscle.”

They began the enzyme-replacement treatment, and after Ayla was born at full term, she continued — and will continue — to receive the groundbreaking therapy.

She is now 16 months old and doing very well. UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospitals shared her success story on Facebook.

“Ayla is doing great and meeting all her milestones after receiving an exciting new treatment developed at our hospital — given in the womb, before she was born!” its post read.

[firefly_embed]

[/firefly_embed]

“Due to the pandemic, Ayla’s mother couldn’t travel from Canada to our hospital to participate in a clinical trial, but UCSF’s Dr. Tippi MacKenzie shared her protocol with doctors in Ottawa, so Ayla could have the best chance of a healthy life. Thanks to the treatment, Ayla is now a happy 16-month-old toddling around and meeting all her developmental milestones!”

“Ayla is our little toddler, toddling around,” Zahid said. “We didn’t know if she’d be able to walk, to talk, to eat, to laugh.

“As she hits each of these milestones, we continue to be amazed at her progress. We are quite aware that she’s a miracle.”

This article appeared originally on The Western Journal.

Tags: babyCanadaFamilyhealthmedicalmiracleU.S. NewsUniversity of CaliforniaUpliftingworld news
Share196Tweet123
Western Journal

Western Journal

Advertisements

Top Stories June 10th
Top Stories June 7th
Top Stories June 6th
Top Stories June 3rd
Top Stories May 30th
Top Stories May 29th
Top Stories May 24th
Top Stories May 23rd
Top Stories May 21st
Top Stories May 17th

Join Over 6M Subscribers

We’re organizing an online community to elevate trusted voices on all sides so that you can be fully informed.





IJR

    Copyright © 2024 IJR

Trusted Voices On All Sides

  • About Us
  • GDPR Privacy Policy
  • Terms of Service
  • Editorial Standards & Corrections Policy
  • Subscribe to IJR

Follow Us

Welcome Back!

Login to your account below

Forgotten Password?

Retrieve your password

Please enter your username or email address to reset your password.

Log In
No Result
View All Result
  • Politics
  • US News
  • Commentary
  • World News
  • Faith
  • Latest Polls

    Copyright © 2024 IJR

Top Stories June 10th Top Stories June 7th Top Stories June 6th Top Stories June 3rd Top Stories May 30th Top Stories May 29th Top Stories May 24th Top Stories May 23rd Top Stories May 21st Top Stories May 17th