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  • Doctors perform heart surgery on 25-week-old fetus—after practicing on a jelly mold and a grape

    10/12/2013 9:41:22 AM PDT · by Olog-hai · 4 replies
    Daily Mail (UK) ^ | 11:46 EST, 9 October 2013 | Helen Collins
    Surgeons in Los Angeles have for the first time performed a life-saving procedure on a tiny fetus inside its mother’s womb after practicing on a grape. Using a hair-fine wire, a miniature needle, a tiny balloon and a catheter, they successfully carried out the operation on the unborn child’s heart—which is about the size of a walnut. It was a medical first for the surgical team at CHA Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center in Los Angeles, and according to the LA Times, it appears to have been a success. … Practicing for such a critical and exacting procedure, remarkably, involved using...