28- week old fetus with Heart Disease Successfully Operated on while still inside Mother's Belly

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Doctors in  South China to be Precise Guangzhou have successfully operated on a 28-week-old fetus with congenital heart disease - while in its mom’s belly.
The patient ,39, whose surname is Die, six months ago she became pregnant.
Twenty-one weeks later, she had an ultrasonic test which showed the fetus was suffering from arrhythmogenic right ventricular dysplasia.
 The chances of survival are very low if surgery is undertaken after birth.Xie,39, insisted she wanted to keep the baby. And on September 22, doctors in Guangzhou conducted interventional cardiology treatment, with the help of experts from Austria. The size of the fetus’ heart was very small as it was  as small as an almond so any slight complication could have resulted in damage, said Zhuang Jian, the director of Guangdong General Hospital.She left 4 days after the surgery. This is the first time an interventional cardiology operation on a fetus’ congenital heart disease had been carried out by Chinese Doctors.


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