Doctors cure girl, 13, of rare condition in ‘world first’ treatment

“Throughout her childhood we were under the care of a number of different hospitals to try to find out what the matter was, but nobody knew the cause,” Kai’s mother Ning said.

She said they had tried everything before the referral, including restrictive diets and flying to China for treatment.

Dr Mona Mossad, consultant interventional radiologist at Royal Stoke, was recommended to Kai’s family as a national expert in lymphatic intervention.

According to the University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust (UHNM), Dr Mossad was the only consultant in the UK who could perform the complex intervention.

Dr Mossad said Kai was in a “difficult situation” as the build-up of lymphatic fluid into her abdomen was causing pressure on her internal organs.