UI Stead Family Children's Hospital 2023 Kid Captain: Chloe Dinkla

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Chloe Dinkla’s adoptive family was told she had club foot, but once she arrived from China and was examined at UI Stead Family Children's Hospital, she was diagnosed with additional serious conditions. Chloe had scoliosis, a curvature of the spine; spina bifida, a birth defect in which there is incomplete closing of the spine; tethered spinal cord, when the spinal cord abnormally attaches to the wall of the spinal canal; and a bony mass that split her spinal cord. She had an 11-hour neurosurgical procedure to repair her spinal cord, followed by subsequent operations, including the placement of MAGnetic Expansion Control TM (MAGEC) rods, to minimize the progression of scoliosis. #uiowa #kidcaptain #uihealthcare