Six-month-old Zola is brought in with spina bifida requiring surgical repair. Derek and Alex discover she has developed hydrocephalus requiring shunt placement before the planned spinal surgery. Derek becomes attached to her and proposes adoption.
Also known as: Water on the brain
Zola develops hydrocephalus as a complication of spina bifida, causing fluid build-up in the brain and crying. Derek successfully places a shunt to drain the fluid, which stops her crying and postpones the spinal surgery.
Young patient Kondo has pentalogy of Cantrell with a heart defect and exposed heart. Teddy repairs the ventricular septal defect while Mark reconstructs the sternum. Cristina assists with the complex adhesions where skin has grown onto heart muscle.
Also known as: Hole in the heart
Component of Kondo's pentalogy of Cantrell. Teddy repairs the VSD through the diverticulum during the complex cardiothoracic surgery.
Also known as: Intestinal TB
Ten-year-old Asha has intestinal TB with multiple complications from an old explosive device injury. She develops acute bleeding requiring emergency surgery. Hunt and Stark perform delicate repair avoiding short gut syndrome.
Also known as: AIDS
Asha is HIV positive living with AIDS, which complicates her surgical treatment for intestinal TB. April is exposed to HIV-positive blood during emergency surgery.
Also known as: Perforated intestine
Asha develops acute intestinal perforation with life-threatening bleeding requiring emergency surgery. The perforation is at the lesser curvature with extensive adhesions from her TB and prior trauma.