Surgeons in Lviv just operated on a 16-week-old fetus inside the womb
If you think your job is high-stress, imagine performing micro-surgery on a patient who hasn't even entered the world yet and is currently the size of an avocado.
A pregnant woman went in for a routine ultrasound, only for doctors to find a severe urinary tract defect in her baby. It was life-threatening, the amniotic fluid was almost completely gone, and the clock was ticking in hours, not days.
Instead of waiting, Ukrainian pediatric surgeon Halyna Kurylo teamed up with Polish professor Przemysław Kosiński to do something straight out of sci-fi. At just 16 weeks of pregnancy, they performed an in-utero stenting under precise ultrasound guidance. They basically fixed the plumbing while the kid was still cooking.
The surgery was a success, the threat is cleared, and the baby is back to growing safely in there.
Some people struggle to thread a needle on a stable table, while others are out here installing micro-stents in a moving womb.
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