In a first-of-its-kind in utero surgery, researchers have successfully repaired a cerebrovascular malformation, which often leads to heart failure, severe brain injury, or possibly death soon after ...

PORTLAND Ore. (KPTV) - Surgeons at the Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) performed Oregon’s first in-utero surgery to repair spina bifida. Oregon couple Vanessa Garcia-Pelayo and her husband ...

“Once you reach that gestational age of development and that back does not close, it won’t close and in fact, if anything, we see the disease will progress,” said Dr. Joseph Lillegard, the head of ...

PORTLAND, Ore. — OHSU Doernbecher Children’s Hospital made history by performing the first in-utero repair for spina bifida in the Northwest and north of Los Angeles. Vanessa Garcia-Pelayo and her ...

Doctors at Boston Children's Hospital performed a first-of-its kind brain surgery on a fetus in utero. The novel approach was to treat a child with the rare condition, a vein of Galen malformation.

BOSTON (CNN) - Doctors in Boston performed a procedure first of its kind last month when they successfully performed brain surgery on a baby while in utero. The baby had a rare condition with a 40% ...

SALT LAKE CITY — When Angela Ibarra-Garcia went in for her 20-week ultrasound, she expected a routine checkup. Instead, she learned her baby girl, Daniela, had spina bifida, a condition where the ...

On Mother’s Day weekend, the hospital celebrated the fifth anniversary of its open fetal surgery with patients and their families. The surgery repairs a spinal defect developed by the fetus in the ...

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