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| Baby saved by rare womb surgery |
| 10.30.07 (4:25 am) [edit] |
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Doctors at Bonn University Clinic have performed the world's first successful surgery in the womb in a case of premature rupture of the foetal membrane, and prevented a baby from dying as a result of it. The girl-child named Miriam is now one year old, and full of beans. The doctors have revealed that she had a very slim chance of surviving birth when the bag of waters burst in the 20th week of pregnancy. They say that her lungs had stopped growing, due to which she could have most probably suffocated after birth. However, the surgery in the womb stimulated lung growth, and saved Miriam's life. Writing about their case in the scientific journal 'Fetal Diagnosis and Therapy', the doctors have revealed that a rupture before the 22nd week of pregnancy results in the child being constricted due to the lack of its protective liquid cushion and the organs pressing on the lung. Miriam's parents, however, did not give up on their daughter, and assented to a prenatal operation offered by Professor Thomas Kohl, Head of the German Centre of Foetal Surgery and Minimally Invasive Therapy at Bonn University Clinic. Professor Kohl says that the kind of foetal surgical procedure is currently an experiment whose outcome is uncertain. "But here we were dealing with a healthy child and it was a question of significantly increasing its chances of survival," he adds. During the operation, the foetal surgeons inserted the operating device, which is the size of a ballpoint pen, into the foetal membranes via a small opening in the mother's stomach. They carefully moved this foetoscope, assisted by a camera and ultrasonic apparatus, via the mouth and into the trachea of the unborn baby. There a miniature balloon was inflated, blocking the respiratory channel so that the fluid which was continuously produced by the prenatal lung did not drain away. The fluid pressure built up this way stimulated lung growth. |
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