This is the beautiful moment two sisters beam with delight as they are given a surprise reunion with their baby brother who had just undergone brain surgery. Kenzo Iwazaki Hirata, aged three, who has Down syndrome, suffered a stroke at the end of last year which doctors discovered was caused by a condition called Moyamoya. Moyamoya – meaning “puff of smoke” in Japanese – is a rare, progressive cerebrovascular disorder caused by blocked arteries at the base of the brain. As a result, Kenzo needed revascularization surgery, which required his mom Renata and dad, Rafael, to travel more than 600 miles from their home in Toledo, Brazil, to Sao Paolo. During Kenzo's surgery, his sisters – Ayumi, 11, and Yuna, seven – were extremely nervous, and during the seven-hour surgery they couldn't wait to see their brother again. Having been given the news Kenzo's surgery was a success, they were then told he would be taken to the intensive care unit, which meant Ayumi and Yuna still could not visit their brother. But as the siblings continued to anxiously wait, Rafael was told the news that he could visit his son – and so he and Renata decided to plan a surprise for the girls, too.
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00:00 Three-year-old Kenzo just got out of brain surgery and is about to surprise
00:05 his sisters who've been waiting nervously for seven hours.
00:28 When baby Kenzo had a stroke his family found out he had a rare disease that
00:32 affected his brain which meant he had to get surgery on both sides of his head.
00:37 And Kenzo is really close with his 7 and 11 year old sisters Yuna and Ayumi.
00:44 So they were so relieved the surgery went well. His parents told us it warmed
00:50 their hearts to see the love between them. And now little Kenzo's doing great
00:56 recovering at home.