US EditionA Baby with a Rare Vascular Tumor Treated in Utero
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Antenatal treatment was given orally to the mother, passing the placental barrier. ...
A French medical team managed to cure a baby with an aggressive vascular tumor, while still in his mother’s uterus, thanks to a medication given to the mother orally. It is a successful pioneering treatment for this type of condition. At the beginning of the eighth month of pregnancy, doctors diagnosed that the fetus had Kasabach-Merritt syndrome, a type of especially aggressive tumor that develops in the neck and that can cause prenatal death d…
In order to save the life of an unborn child, French doctors resorted to an unprecedented therapy, because the boy had been diagnosed with a tumor.
Three months ago, at Mulhouse Hospital, a healthy baby was born while a very high-risk invasive vascular tumour was detected before her birth. Through prenatal treatment, the newborn was saved. A world first for such a tumor.
In France, for the first time, a fetus with a rare tumor has been successfully treated in the womb. Pregnant women received a special medication to slow the growth of the life-threatening tumor. Small Issa has Kasabach-Merritt syndrome (KMS), which is associated with a vascular tumor. The disease was detected towards the end of the seventh month of pregnancy. As the swelling on the neck spread rapidly across the entire lower face, the team of a …
Mulhouse, France.A baby with a rare and life-threatening vascular tumor was treated intrauterinally in France, a world premiere for this condition, the medical team reported.Mulhouse maternity doctors in eastern France detected at the end of the seventh month of pregnancy a tumor in the fetus (Kasabach-Merritt syndrome) that carries a very high risk of intrauterine death.A mass in the baby's neck threatened to make breathing difficult for him, e…
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