New York, May 5 (Ians) For the first time, US doctors have performed a successful brain surgery on an unborn baby to prevent heart failure and brain injury after birth.
The in-utero surgery, described in the journal in Stroke, was performed on a foetus with a gestational age of 34 weeks and 2 days. It was done to repair a potentially deadly developmental condition by treating an aggressive vascular malformation, called vein of Galen malformation.
The baby girl Denver Coleman was born two days post-surgery with no birth defects and limited complications at 1.9 kg. She is doing well now, and is not on any medication, said the team from Boston Children’s Hospital and Brigham and Women’s Hospital, who performed the surgery — in-utero embolisation — as part of a clinical trial, and with oversight from the US Food and Drug Administration.
“In our ongoing clinical trial, we are using ultrasound-guided transuterine embolisation to address the...
The in-utero surgery, described in the journal in Stroke, was performed on a foetus with a gestational age of 34 weeks and 2 days. It was done to repair a potentially deadly developmental condition by treating an aggressive vascular malformation, called vein of Galen malformation.
The baby girl Denver Coleman was born two days post-surgery with no birth defects and limited complications at 1.9 kg. She is doing well now, and is not on any medication, said the team from Boston Children’s Hospital and Brigham and Women’s Hospital, who performed the surgery — in-utero embolisation — as part of a clinical trial, and with oversight from the US Food and Drug Administration.
“In our ongoing clinical trial, we are using ultrasound-guided transuterine embolisation to address the...
- 5/5/2023
- by Agency News Desk
- GlamSham
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