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  2. Cleveland Clinic performs its first-ever in utero surgery to ...

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    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 ...

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

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    Just over a year ago, little Lexi and her mom, Brittany Badenhop, underwent surgery to correct Lexi's spina bifida — a condition where a gap forms in a child's spine during fetal development ...

  4. 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]

  5. 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 ...

  6. Neural tube defect - Wikipedia

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    Spina bifida occulta means hidden split spine. [20] In this type of neural tube defect, the meninges do not herniate through the opening in the spinal canal. [19] The most frequently seen form of spina bifida occulta is when parts of the bones of the spine, called the spinous process, and the neural arch appear abnormal on a radiogram, without ...

  7. Cleveland Clinic performs its first-ever in utero surgery to ...

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  8. 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.

  9. 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 ...