Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia successfully performs second fetal heart surgery
Surgeons at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) performed heart surgery on a fetus still inside the womb, successfully removing a tumor damaging the heart, reports CBS Philly.
The tumor first showed up on a routine ultrasound when Cecilia Cella was five months pregnant with her baby, Juan. When the tumor was discovered, Cella was at home in Uruguay, but she went to CHOP to receive advanced care.
At the time of the surgery, the tumor was about three times the size of the baby’s heart. This is only the second successful fetal heart surgery done at CHOP.
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