Oct 30 2007
isn’t that amazing..?
German physicians, for the first time, have successfully performed surgery in the womb of a woman who suffered premature rupture of her fetal membrane. When the patient’s fetal membrane burst during her 20th week of pregnancy, the fetus had a very slim chance of surviving, the physicians said.
Along with a high risk of infection, the fetus’s lungs stopped growing, meaning she would have probably suffocated after birth. Surgeons at Bonn University Clinic conducted a surgical procedure that stimulated lung growth — the first time such a procedure has been used after premature rupture of the fetal membrane. The baby is now 1 year old and healthy. The surgeons detailed their achievement in the journal Fetal Diagnosis and Therapy.
The advancements in medical field gets fascinating each day, from transplants, to sequencing DNA, clinical trials, stem cell research, just to remind us, that there is a hope of survival for every disease, syndrome, or maybe we will reach someday where every cell can be cloned, and there is an alternative available.
But there is also a saying, an apple a day keeps the doctor away. So lets practice healthy living, by taking care of ourselves with our lifestyle.
GHT - WE CARE
