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  2. Hand of Hope - Wikipedia

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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 ...

  3. Baby Lexi marks first birthday after breakthrough surgery at ...

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    Lexi Badenhop enjoys her first birthday on June 19th, 2024 with her mother, Brittany. Lexi was the first baby to ever undergo surgery in the womb for the birth defect spina bifida at Nationwide ...

  4. Babies with spina bifida operated on within the womb

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    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 ...

  5. Fetal surgery - Wikipedia

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    Risks of fetal surgery, specifically prenatal spina bifida repair, include premature rupture of membranes, uterine rupture in future pregnancies, premature birth and intraspinal inclusion cysts or a tethered cord in the fetus or newborn baby. [4] Open fetal surgery has proven to be reasonably safe for the mother. [3]

  6. 3 pregnant women were stuck in the hospital on bedrest ... - AOL

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    After she arrived, Rose discovered there was another woman in the department pregnant with a baby who underwent the spina bifida surgery. That was Tanton, who had been in the hospital starting at ...

  7. Fetoscopy - Wikipedia

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    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.

  8. Baby removed from womb then put back in operation - AOL

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  9. Tethered cord syndrome - Wikipedia

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    By the time of birth the spinal cord is located between L1 and L2. In a baby with Spina bifida the spinal cord is still attached to the skin around it preventing it from rising properly. [12] This occurs because the spinal cord in a child with Spina bifida is low lying and tethered at the bottom.