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Hand of Hope is a 1999 medical photograph taken by Michael Clancy during open fetal surgery, showing the hand of the fetus extending from the incision in the mother's uterus and seeming to grasp a surgeon's finger. Clancy was documenting a procedure being developed at Vanderbilt University to treat spina bifida. The photograph was taken on 19 ...
Fetoscopy is an endoscopic procedure during pregnancy to allow surgical access to the fetus, the amniotic cavity, the umbilical cord, and the fetal side of the placenta.A small (3–4 mm) incision is made in the abdomen, and an endoscope is inserted through the abdominal wall and uterus into the amniotic cavity.
Spina bifida is a type of neural tube defect related to but distinct from other types such as anencephaly and encephalocele. [13] Most cases of spina bifida can be prevented if the mother gets enough folate before and during pregnancy. [3] Adding folic acid to flour has been found to be effective for most women. [14]
For decades, all spina bifida surgeries were conducted after a baby was born, but a 2011 study found that surgery done while the baby was still in the mother's womb had much better health outcomes ...
A London hospital has become the first in the country to carry out keyhole surgery on babies with spina bifida while they are still in their mother’s womb. A team of neurosurgeons and fetal ...
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The MOMS Trial was a clinical trial that studied treatment of a birth defect called myelomeningocele, which is the most severe form of spina bifida. The study looked at prenatal (before birth) and postnatal (after birth) surgery to repair this defect. The first major phase concluded that prenatal surgery had strong, long-term benefits and some ...
A multispecialty team of clinicians led by Darrell Cass, M.D., the director of Fetal Surgery at Cleveland Clinic's Fetal Center, surgically corrected the fetus's spina bifida in February and the ...