2023-05-06 10:26:00
Written by Amal Allam
Saturday, May 06, 2023 01:26 PM
Doctors have performed the world’s first brain surgery on a baby with a fatal genetic disorder while still inside its mother’s womb, and surgeons have treated a rare birth defect that might be fatal to a baby while still in the womb, which experts say is The first brain surgery It is performed on an unborn child, according to the British Daily Mail.
Doctors saved the fetus from certain death following performing the first brain surgery of its kind When the child was still in the womb, a team of 10 doctors at Boston Children’s Hospital and Massachusetts General Hospital performed the delicate procedure in the United States, which included cutting the uterus and the baby’s skull and then performing the operation on the brain developing.
The child was diagnosed with Galenic vein malformation. Children born with the condition have a 30% chance of dying before the age of 11.
The condition – which affects 1 in 60,000 children – occurs when arteries in the brain drain blood directly into veins instead of capillaries. This floods the heart with blood and can lead to dangerously high blood pressure.
The operation, which was performed by doctors in Boston, was performed by opening the pregnant woman’s abdomen and using ultrasound to locate the artery and guide the surgery. Two days later, the woman gave birth to a healthy baby, born without birth defects. The researchers are working with the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA).FDA) to conduct trials on the safety and efficacy of this surgery, with the hope of expanding its use.
The paper said, Fetal Intervention Team at Boston Children’s Hospital and Brigham and Women’s Hospital have succeeded in devising another in utero procedure that might be very impressive. The surgery is documented in a case study published Wednesday in the Journal of the American Heart Association.
Three weeks following birth, the baby did not require any cardiovascular assistance and MRI scans found no sign of abnormal blood flow in the brain.
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