For the first time, researchers performed a successful in-utero surgery to repair a potentially deadly developmental condition by treating an aggressive vascular malformation, called vein of Galen malformation, in a fetus's brain before birth, according to new research published today in Stroke, the peer-reviewed flagship journal of the American Stroke Association, a division of the American Heart Association.
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 .
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
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