All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Delhi (AIIMS) has successfully performed the first open surgery on the spinal cord of an infant in the mother's womb. This is the first fetal surgery for the most severe form of spina bifida in India. AIIMS gave this information on Saturday. The conduct of such a complex surgery is a milestone in the health sector in India. Also, this surgery is being seen as an improvement in the health services in India becoming better and world class.
According to the doctors of Delhi AIIMS, the child in the womb is 25 weeks old, who has undergone open spinal surgery. The intention of the doctors behind performing this operation is to cure the child's spinal cord disease before birth. For your information, the baby had congenital myelomeningocele disease.
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congenital malformation of baby's spinal cord
This complex surgery, which lasted for 6 hours at the Neuroscience Center on November 12, has been described as the first open fetal surgery performed in India. In this, an attempt has been made to correct the congenital defect in the spinal cord of the fetus even before birth. A multidisciplinary team of more than 30 doctors and health workers were involved in this surgery.
Damage to nerve tissues
The baby had a serious disease called congenital myelomeningocele. In this, some part of the spinal cord and the membranes covering it come out of the open space made in the spinal cord. This causes damage to nerve tissues.
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What problems do such children face?
In such children, after birth, diseases like paralysis of legs, difficulty in walking and filling of water in the brain (hydrocephalus) may occur. Generally its surgery is done after the birth of the child but by then the nerves may have been damaged.