A large team of doctors in Abu Dhabi has performed an in-utero surgery and two more surgeries to save an infant. The infant’s parents were expecting him after five years of marriage following an IVF treatment. During the routine check-up at 12 weeks of pregnancy , a scan revealed a diaphragmatic defect in the fetus, causing the bowel and liver to herniate into his thorax. The defect began to compress the lungs as the pregnancy advanced.
The parents consulted a Fetal Maternal Medicine and Obstetrics specialist at a reputed hospital in Abu Dhabi. In addition to him, a team of doctors, including neonatologists, an obstetric anesthesiologist, an otorhinolaryngologist, a pediatric surgeon, and a pediatric intensive care unit expert, decided to perform a fetal endotracheal occlusion procedure. This in-utero procedure involved placing a balloon in the fetus’s trachea using a fetoscope to…
