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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. Fetal surgery - Wikipedia

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    [13] [quantify] Dr. Oluyinka Olutoye, alongside Darrell Cass, from the Texas Children's Fetal Centre, removed a 23-week-old fetus from her mother's womb in order to perform surgery upon a spinal tumor she had. The girl was placed back in the womb after a five-hour surgery and was born without complications. [14]

  4. 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 ...

  5. Hysterotomy - Wikipedia

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    Hysterotomy is a technique used during fetal surgery to access the fetus in the pregnant uterus in order to treat a birth defect such as spina bifida. [13] A standard hysterotomy remains the gold-standard for the closure of a fetal spina bifida because it is the safest and most effective when compared to mini-hysterectomies and a percutaneous ...

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

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    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 ...

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

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  8. Spina bifida - Wikipedia

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    Medical imaging can confirm the diagnosis after birth. [5] 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]

  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 ...