Admitted to Rick Santorum's daughter Elizabeth three years old, who suffers from a condition called trisomy of chromosome 18, and Saturday's Hospital of Philadelphia.
In a statement, spokesman Hogan Gidley Santorum, Republican presidential candidate, former senator from Pennsylvania, and canceled campaign events on Sunday morning.
"Rick and his wife Karen and their daughter Bella admitted to Children's Hospital of Philadelphia tonight," said Gidley. "Rick's campaign canceled Sunday morning following table Florida campaign, but Rick has the intention of returning to Florida, resume and schedule the campaign as soon as possible."
And he was scheduled to appear in Santorum's "Meet the Press" on NBC as well as make the stop on the international ministry of Jesus, the King in Miami. Santorum's campaign in Florida before the state primary on Tuesday.
And cases of trisomy 18 of extra material from chromosome 18, and three times more common in girls than boys. Half of the patients born with the condition not to stay in the past in the first week of life, according to the National Institutes of Health. Patients who survive beyond the first week of the serious problems of medical knowledge and development.
In his campaign, Santorum has a page dedicated to her daughter, including a video that describes the candidate of the child as the "center of the universe to our family."
"Our youngest daughter, Maria Isabel, named Bella, is a very special girl who needs very careful," Santorum said in the video. "When I was born she knew something was wrong, but do not know what it was, it was not until five days later they came back and told me that Karen had a disease called Trisomy 18, which is similar to Down syndrome."
Santorum described feelings of anger after doctors told him and his wife prepare for the death of Bella in the first days of his life.
"We're going to die lack of attention to it, and we will focus on life," Santorum said in the video.
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