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Surgery for the Unborn Proves Impressively Successful

Babies with a severe congenital spinal cord defect (called a “myelomeningocoele”) are at high risk of developing permanent brain and spinal cord damage, if the defect is not repaired soon after birth. Recently a consortium of world-renowned pediatric hospital centers...

Keyhole Surgeons Save Babies in the Womb

A PIONEERING new form of keyhole surgery will be used to save the lives of dozens of unborn babies every year, Scotland on Sunday can reveal. The remarkable technique involves a ‘fetoscope’ about the width of three grains of sugar which is used to...

Baby Angeline Marie

“Miraculous” Fetal Surgery Shows Babies With Spina Bifida Shouldn’t be Aborted Three-year-old Angeline Marie is spending some time in “the thinking chair” this week at preschool and her mother couldn’t be prouder. “She getting...

Spina Bifida Surgery While in Utero

This photo features a 21-week-old human fetus (Baby Samuel), still inside his mother’s uterus (womb). The photo was taken during an operation (Vanderbilt Univ, 1999) to correct spina bifida, a congenital condition. “Fetus” is a Latin word meaning...