A team of surgeons from the Cleveland Clinic’s Fetal Center, Ohio successfully performed an extremely risky in utero fetal surgery on a 23-week-old fetus with spina bifida. This marks the clinic’s first in utero fetal surgery since its establishment two years ago. Furthermore, this incredible medical accomplishment bolsters the world-class excellence of the clinic in the department of the prenatal care and gives recognition to the clinic as one of the few elite medical institutes capable of performing such a critical medical procedure. The surgical team was headed by Dr.
Darrell Cass , the director of the Fetal Center at Cleveland Clinic with an experience of more than 160 fetal surgeries. The multidisciplinary team also consisted of pediatric neurosurgeons, fetal cardiologist, obstetrician, and pediatric anesthesiologist. Spina bifida is a birth defect that is commonly detected during…
