Pseudoobstruction: A long awaited diagnosis for a Dominican Republic family - Boston Children's

When Yoselin was 6 months pregnant with her daughter Gaby, a prenatal ultrasound indicated an abnormality that would later cause Gaby to have trouble feeding and growing normally. After doctors in their native Dominican Republic were unable to come up with a diagnosis, Yoselin brought an 11 month old Gaby to Boston Children's Hospital where Samuel Nurko, MD, MPH, Pediatric Gastroenterologist and Director of the Motility and Functional Gastrointestinal Disorders Center diagnosed her with pseudoobstruction, a condition in which the muscles of the gastrointestinal tract do not function normally.