Las Cruces resident Katarina Torrez was pregnant with her third child in 2023 and had no reason to think this pregnancy would be any different from the others. At 20 weeks, she went in for a standard ...

In 2019, Children's Hospital Los Angeles was part of a multi-institution collaboration that was the first in the Western U.S. to perform a completely laparoscopic repair of fetal spina bifida. Now, ...

HONOLULU (KHON2) — A severe spinal defect threatened the life of a Wahiawa woman’s unborn child. Now more than a year later, her baby is thriving thanks to a successful surgery before birth. In 2023, ...

HOUSTON (KTRK) -- Children born with spina bifida usually face a multitude of challenges throughout their lives, with many of them having limited mobility. But a ground breaking experimental surgery ...

Researchers are investigating whether a human umbilical cord patch placed on the spina bifida defect could improve healing after minimally invasive fetoscopic surgery in a clinical trial at The ...

A minimally invasive fetoscopic surgery is allowing Intermountain Health Primary Children’s Hospital to treat spina bifida in the womb, reducing the risk of complications for moms and improving the ...

What if surgeons could repair a birth defect before a baby is even born? For some families facing a diagnosis of spina bifida, that possibility is now real thanks to advances in fetal surgery. Spina ...

“I feel like the only option was to have surgery,” said Chris Portillo. Elizabeth added, “We just wanted to give him the best chance at a better quality of life.” In March, when she was 25 weeks along ...

So far, the largest bass Grayson Canezaro has caught weighed 3½ pounds. When asked if he is a pro, the 6-year-old nods and smiles. Then, he narrows his focus, casts out into the water and reels in his ...

We present a case of extensive CMS where membrane separation evolves into ABS with ruptured and collapsed amniotic sac and subsequent constriction of the fetal parts and cord. We successfully ...

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