HONOLULU (KHON2) — A severe spinal defect threatened the life of a Wahiawa woman’s unborn child. Now more than a year later, her baby is thriving thanks to a successful surgery before birth. In 2023, ...

The revolutionary procedure at Intermountain Health Primary Children’s Hospital reduces the risk of complications for moms ...

In 2019, Children's Hospital Los Angeles was part of a multi-institution collaboration that was the first in the Western U.S. to perform a completely laparoscopic repair of fetal spina bifida. Now, ...

HOUSTON (KTRK) -- Children born with spina bifida usually face a multitude of challenges throughout their lives, with many of them having limited mobility. But a ground breaking experimental surgery ...

Las Cruces resident Katarina Torrez was pregnant with her third child in 2023 and had no reason to think this pregnancy would be any different from the others. At 20 weeks, she went in for a standard ...

So far, the largest bass Grayson Canezaro has caught weighed 3½ pounds. When asked if he is a pro, the 6-year-old nods and smiles. Then, he narrows his focus, casts out into the water and reels in his ...

Researchers are investigating whether a human umbilical cord patch placed on the spina bifida defect could improve healing after minimally invasive fetoscopic surgery in a clinical trial at The ...

“I feel like the only option was to have surgery,” said Chris Portillo. Elizabeth added, “We just wanted to give him the best chance at a better quality of life.” In March, when she was 25 weeks along ...

A foetus aged 25 weeks and weighing 800 grams underwent fetoscopic surgery to repair spina bifida. The minimally invasive procedure lasted 90 minutes, and was performed at Sheikh Khalifa Medical City ...

Preterm premature rupture of membranes remains a major complication after fetoscopic laser surgery (FLS) for twin-twin transfusion syndrome (TTTS). We studied the histologic changes of fetal membranes ...