Spanish Doctors Announce World First in Fetal Surgery

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Editor’s Note: Exciting, if not somewhat delayed, news from Spain where we learned that doctors from two Barcelona hospitals performed a fetal surgery to fix a blocked bronchial tube in developing baby girl in late 2010. “It is the first time in the world that this has been achieved. It is the first time that it has been tried and it turned out well,” said the head of the Maternal-fetal Medicine Department at Hospital Clinic, Eduard Gratacos. To read more click here.

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