Uitspraak
GERECHT IN EERSTE AANLEG VAN ARUBA
1.[Appellante sub 1],
1.de minister van Volksgezondheid,
1.Procesverloop
2.Feiten
3.Wettelijk kader
4.Besluitvorming
Nationwide Children’s Hospital) onder meer het volgende bericht: ”This statement serves to emphasize the following facts and circumstances with regards to [appellante sub 3] (…) A large muscular VSD, a large PDA and a coarctation of the aorta concern medical issues for which cardiac catheterization and cardiac surgery respectively are common interventions and procedures. The commonness of these interventions and procedures is considered in isolation of the quantity of cases in which these interventions and procedures have been performed on children with Trisomy 18, because Trisomy 18 is a rather rare disease and the amount of children with Trisomy 18 that would qualify for these interventions and procedures because of their advanced age and relatively healthy state is even more rare. It can be stated that in our practice it has proven to be more common to perform these interventions and procedures once a Trisomy 18 patient is considered a suitable candidate, than it is to deny the candidate the suggested life-prolonging treatment. (…) The above mentioned medical intervention and procedures has been proven to be efficient and effective, in Trisomy 18 patients as well. (…)”
Cardinal Glennon Children’s Hospital) onder meer het volgende medegedeeld: ” I reviewed the medical information provided on your daughter [appellante sub 3]. (…) She has done reasonably well over these past 15 months and has grown along a curve that is typical for patients with her genetic diagnosis. Since she has done this well over these several months, it is clear that she is in a category of patients with this genetic diagnosis who will generally do reasonably well as far as survival is concerned. With that in mind, the next step should be a cardiac catheterization with a careful evaluation of her anatomy and hemodynamics to see what treatment would be best going forward. It is possible that the cardiac catheterization will demonstrate that in fact, she is better off treated with medications rather than surgery as well. We cannot determine which pathway would be best for her without a cardiac catherization, done very carefully with testing of her pulmonary vascular resistance and response to medications. It is my recommendation that she undergo this procedure soon. (…)”
evenwhen performed in the neonatal period is less than 20%. In majority of cases the recurrent coarctation can be managed with cardiac catheterization procedures. There is no evidence that coarctation repair in trisomy 18 is associated with any significant increase in mortality and there is no reason to believe that the recurrence risk of recoarctation is
any higherand trisomy 18.
bij levensvatbare trisomie 18 patienten (zoals [appellante sub 3])(thans) gebruikelijk is in de kring van beroepsgenoten.