The Cleveland Clinic completed its first in utero fetal surgery to repair a spina bifida birth defect earlier this year on a 23-week-old fetus, bringing a new surgery option to northern Ohio.
The surgery was in February. The child, a baby girl, was delivered via cesarean section June 3.
“By successfully repairing the defect before birth, we're allowing this child to have the best possible outcome and significantly improve her quality of life,” Dr. Darrell Cass, director of fetal surgery in the Clinic’s Fetal Center, said in a prepared statement. “There are different measures of quality in determining success for fetal repairs and in this particular case, all metrics for maximum quality were achieved.”
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