http://www.trachkids.org/medical-conditions/bipap-ventilation View Categorized TrachKid Profiles. en http://www.trachkids.org/members/404 <div class="trachkid-profile"> <span class="portrait" style="float:left;margin:0 0.5em 0.5em 0"><a href="/members/404"><img src="http://www.trachkids.org/files/imagecache/UserImage_Icon/files/portraits/nigel.jpg" alt="nigel.jpg" title="nigel.jpg" /></a></span> <p>Nigel Jonathan Tan was born on 27 November 2001. Though full-term, he weighed only 1620 grams, and showed signs of respiratory distress soon after birth. He was diagnosed as having a rare genetic defect in the 8th chromosome, and had major cardiac anomalies like PDA, a constriction in his aorta and several holes in the heart, one of which was quite large and flooded his lungs.</p> </div><p><a href="http://www.trachkids.org/members/404">read more</a></p> http://www.trachkids.org/members/404#comments Male Asia None BIPAP ventilation Chromosome 8p Inversion-Duplication with partial deletion NG-tube 60% Chinese + 25% Burmese-Japanese + 15% Indonesian Thu, 05 Jun 2008 08:11:54 -0400 Nigel Tan 409 at http://www.trachkids.org