Doctors performed a first-of-its-kind brain surgery on a fetus in the womb to repair a malformed blood vessel.
For the first time, doctors surgically repaired a malformed blood vessel in a baby's brain while she was still in the womb. The baby, born in mid-March, was discharged from the hospital a few weeks after birth and has not required any medications or other treatments since then.
In VOGM, certain arteries in the brain don't link to capillaries — delicate, branching blood vessels that help slow blood flow — as they normally would. Instead, the arteries dump blood into veins at the base of the brain, and this blood flows at a high pressure. The high-pressure blood flow can cause congestive heart failure, high blood pressure in the arteries of the lungs , brain tissue injury and loss, or an enlarged head .
"In our first treated case, we were thrilled to see that the aggressive decline usually seen after birth simply did not appear," Dr. Darren Orbach , co-director of the Cerebrovascular Surgery & Interventions Center at Boston Children's Hospital, an associate professor of radiology at Harvard Medical School and lead author of the case report, said in the AHA statement.
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