Apples for Health- Surgeons Perform In-Womb Lung Surgery

Surgeons Perform In-Womb Lung Surgery

German physicians, for the first time, have successfully performed surgery in the womb of a woman who suffered premature rupture of her fetal membrane.

When the patient's fetal membrane burst during her 20th week of pregnancy, the fetus had a very slim chance of surviving, the physicians said. Along with a high risk of infection, the fetus's lungs stopped growing, meaning she would have probably suffocated after birth.

Surgeons at Bonn University Clinic conducted a surgical procedure that stimulated lung growth -- the first time such a procedure has been used after premature rupture of the fetal membrane.

The baby is now 1 year old and healthy.

The surgeons detailed their achievement in the journal Fetal Diagnosis and Therapy.

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