For the first time, a team of Boston Children’s Hospital and Brigham and Women’s Hospital in the United States has successfully performed surgery on the brain of a baby in the mother’s womb to treat a rare disease of the arteries.
Vein of Gallen malformation (VOGM), which is an arterial malformation, can be life-threatening for newborns. Doctors on the occasion of the success of this surgery said that although this is a great success but this is a case, more research is needed to know if this procedure of prenatal fetal brain surgery is a good practice. Strategy or not.
The fetus was 34 weeks and 2 days at the time of surgery. Experts said that the risk of serious diseases in the child at the time of birth due to this disease was 99%.
This specific artery disease is estimated to occur in 1 in 60,000 births and is often detected during a routine ultrasound in late pregnancy.
This condition occurs when the arteries in the brain make a faulty connection in which the arteries that supply blood to the brain and reduce its flow connect directly to a large vein that carries blood from the brain back to the heart. Is. In this way, the blood in the vein continues to increase, which eventually puts a lot of pressure on the heart and lungs of the newborn.
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