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Pro-Life News in Brief.
Fetal Surgery Saves Baby's Life
In a remarkable medical procedure, doctors at the Texas Center for Fetal Surgery removed a large tumor from an unborn baby's chest while he was still connected to his mother by his umbilical cord. After the tumor was removed, allowing his lungs to expand, Garrett Jorgensen was separated from his mother and was able to breathe on his own.
Ellen and Christopher Jorgensen discovered during a routine ultrasound in July that their unborn baby, due to be born in only a few weeks, had a life-threatening tumor growing in his chest cavity, according to the Houston Chronicle. Their doctor referred them to the Texas Children's ...
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- Magazine article from: Conscience Casper, Monica J. September 22, 2007 700+ words
...Francisco (UCSF) performed the first open fetal surgery, a last-ditch, ultimately unsuccessful...development. Media coverage of early fetal surgery procedures emphasized the "miraculous...ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] I discovered fetal surgery in 1991, as a first-year graduate...
- Feminist politics and fetal surgery: adventures of a research cowgirl on the...
- Magazine article from: Feminist Studies Casper, Monica J. June 22, 1997 700+ words
...surfaced in my ethnographic study of fetal surgery and the historical emergence of the...I assume with some irony, because fetal surgery is often called the "final frontier...reproduction in the historical emergence of fetal surgery.(1) Although a number of provocative...
- Randomized trials needed for fetal surgery. (Safety and Efficacy a Concern).
- Magazine article from: OB GYN News Boughton, Barbara October 15, 2002 700+ words
...patients were randomized to either fetal surgery or standard postnatal care showed that...randomized, placebo-controlled trials of fetal surgery for TTTS. The syndrome can result...recipient twin. Serial amnioreduction fetal surgery for TTTS can allow the pregnancy to...
- Many advantages to using fetal surgery centers besides surgery: suspected fetal...
- Magazine article from: OB GYN News Boschert, Sherry August 15, 2003 700+ words
...fetal anomaly to justify contacting a fetal surgery center. Any woman with a fetus suspected...referring physician, regardless of whether fetal surgery is necessary or the woman doesn't...anomalies that don't qualify for fetal surgery still may require delivery at a tertiary...
- Fetal surgery comes of age.(The Master Class)
- Magazine article from: OB GYN News Adzick, N. Scott September 1, 2004 700+ words
...selected cases, to intervene with fetal surgery, thus preventing problems from becoming...Consumer magazines have tended to view fetal surgery as a miracle cure. Community obstetricians...refined fetal surgical techniques. Fetal surgery remains a rare solution for rare conditions...
- Fetal surgery for spina bifida shows benefits in leg function, fewer shunts.
- Newspaper article from: Health & Medicine Week October 20, 2003 700+ words
...encouraging short-term outcomes in fetal surgery for the birth defect spina bifida...risks to the mother. "Following the fetal surgery, mothers remain in the Philadelphia...studies are important in evaluating fetal surgery for spina bifida. The Children's...
- Fetal surgery shows early benefits in leg function.
- Newspaper article from: Pain & Central Nervous System Week October 13, 2003 700+ words
...encouraging short-term outcomes in fetal surgery for the birth defect spina bifida...risks to the mother. "Following the fetal surgery, mothers remain in the Philadelphia...studies are important in evaluating fetal surgery for spina bifida. The Children's...
- Fetal Surgery for Spina Bifida Shows Early Benefits in Leg Function, Fewer...
- Press release article from: PR Newswire September 25, 2003 700+ words
...encouraging short-term outcomes in fetal surgery for the birth defect spina bifida...risks to the mother. "Following the fetal surgery, mothers remain in the Philadelphia...studies are important in evaluating fetal surgery for spina bifida. The Children's...
