For the first time ever, a team of US doctors have performed a successful brain surgery on an unborn baby with a gestational age of 34 weeks and 2 days. The surgery was necessary to prevent the child’s heart failure and brain injury after birth.
The in-utero surgery, described in the journal Stroke, was done to repair a potentially deadly developmental condition by treating an aggressive vascular malformation, called vein of Galen malformation.
