{"id":92356,"date":"2019-06-19T21:02:13","date_gmt":"2019-06-20T04:02:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/cleveland-clinic-performs-its-first-in-utero-surgery-on-fetus-repairs-spina-bifida-before-babys-birth"},"modified":"2019-06-19T21:02:13","modified_gmt":"2019-06-20T04:02:13","slug":"cleveland-clinic-performs-its-first-in-utero-surgery-on-fetus-repairs-spina-bifida-before-babys-birth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/cleveland-clinic-performs-its-first-in-utero-surgery-on-fetus-repairs-spina-bifida-before-babys-birth","title":{"rendered":"Cleveland Clinic performs its first in utero surgery on fetus, repairs spina bifida before baby\u2019s birth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/cleveland-clinic-performs-its-first-in-utero-surgery-on-fetus-repairs-spina-bifida-before-babys-birth2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>CLEVELAND \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/fox8.com\/tag\/cleveland-clinic\/\">The Cleveland Clinic<\/a> has joined other top hospitals in North America and can now offer <a href=\"https:\/\/fox8.com\/2019\/06\/19\/cleveland-clinic-performs-first-in-utero-surgery-on-fetus-with-spina-bifida\/\">in utero surgery<\/a>. The hospital announced Wednesday that after more than a year of preparations they have successfully completed Northern Ohio\u2019s first ever surgery on a fetus inside the uterus to repair spina bifida.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe operation on the fetus in the uterus, I\u2019m directing and in charge of, and the guidance of where we should open the uterus, the exposure of the baby,\u201d said Dr. Darrell Cass, Director of Fetal Surgery in the Cleveland Clinic\u2019s Fetal Center.<\/p>\n<p>Cass and a team of more than a dozen other specialists including pediatric neurosurgeons, a fetal cardiologist and pediatric anesthesiologists performed the surgery on a nearly 23-week fetus with the birth defect spina bifida in February.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CLEVELAND \u2014 The Cleveland Clinic has joined other top hospitals in North America and can now offer in utero surgery. The hospital announced Wednesday that after more than a year of preparations they have successfully completed Northern Ohio\u2019s first ever surgery on a fetus inside the uterus to repair spina bifida. \u201cThe operation on the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92356","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92356"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92356\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}