And according to US news agency ‘United Press International’, the case is known as ‘Vein Galleons Malformation’ (VOGM), and experts have called the successful operation an ‘exciting achievement’.
The operation was performed at the Boston Children’s Hospital Cerebrovascular Surgery Center on a 34-week-and-2-day-old fetus who had a 99% chance of serious problems after birth.
Experts stressed that it was only a question of success in a single case and therefore further research was needed to find out whether surgery on the brain of a fetus before birth was a “good strategy”. “.
The importance of this surgery is to protect the fetus from the risk of heart failure and stroke after birth.
“If they have this malformation, about 50 to 60 percent of newborns will have problems soon after birth, often two days later,” said Dr. Darren Auerbach of the Center for Cerebrovascular Surgery at Boston Children’s Hospital.
VOGM is a rare condition, occurring in only one in 60,000 fetuses, and is often discovered during routine ultrasounds late in pregnancy.
The disease occurs when malformed arteries in the brain make a “bad connection”. Instead of pumping blood through the tiny capillaries that supply the brain and slow blood flow, the arteries connect directly to a larger vein, which drains blood from the brain to the heart.
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