{"id":127887,"date":"2022-03-02T19:47:42","date_gmt":"2022-03-03T00:47:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ifamnews.com\/?p=127887"},"modified":"2022-03-02T19:47:44","modified_gmt":"2022-03-03T00:47:44","slug":"doctors-perform-rare-fetal-heart-surgery-to-save-child","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ifamnews.com\/en\/doctors-perform-rare-fetal-heart-surgery-to-save-child","title":{"rendered":"Doctors perform rare fetal heart surgery to save child"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Doctors at Cleveland Clinic performed complex surgery to remove a life-threatening tumor from the heart of a 26-week old baby in the womb. In the press release<\/a> about the rare surgery, Dr. Darrell Case, director of Cleveland Clinic\u2019s Fetal Surgery and Fetal Care Clinic, stated:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cOnly one previous incidence of continued pregnancy and delivery after fetal intrapericardial teratoma resection [type of fetal heart surgery] is documented in the world\u2019s medical literature. As far as we know, Cleveland Clinic is the second academic medical center in the world to have performed this fetal surgery successfully with continued pregnancy and delivery.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

During the 3\u00bd hour surgery, doctors surgically opened the mother\u2019s uterus and brought the arms of the developing child out to expose his chest. After inserting an IV line into the child\u2019s arm, doctors opened the child\u2019s chest and peridcardium (the membrane covering the heart) and extracted the tumor from the child\u2019s beating heart. \u00a0\u201cAs soon as the tumor was removed, the compression of the left atrium disappeared, and there was a nice blood flow that was almost back to normal,\u201d said Dr. Hani Najm, who led the surgery team. He then closed the chest of the child and sewed up the mother\u2019s abdomen. Two and a half months later, baby Ryan Dillon entered the world without complications.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIn this case, time was of the essence,\u201d said Dr. Cass. \u201cShortly after the patient arrived at Cleveland Clinic, imaging tests showed that the tumor kept growing and the fetus\u2019s heart function was deteriorating.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This successful surgery gives hope to other developing babies who suffer from this life-threatening heart condition. \u201cSuch an innovative fetal surgery provides hope to other families who may receive a similar devastating diagnosis,\u201d said Dr. Najm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Throughout the whole process, from diagnosis to successful surgery and birth, and whether Ryan was in the womb or out, everyone considered him a human life<\/em>. That is what doctors were trying to save. No one thought otherwise.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Ryan Dillon
photo courtesy Cleveland Clinic NewsRoom
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Yet in radical states such as New York and Illinois, doctors could have terminated Ryan\u2019s life; even at 26-weeks of life. Indeed, they could have terminated his life up to the moment of birth. Let us hope that lifesaving fetal surgeries, such as the one done on Ryan Dillon, will convince more people that developing life in a mother\u2019s womb really is a human being.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Said Dr. Darrell Case, \u201cOnly one previous incidence of continued pregnancy and delivery after fetal intrapericardial teratoma resection is documented in the world\u2019s medical literature.” It serves as a stark reminder of the miracle of medicine… and also, the gross injustice of abortion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":651,"featured_media":128545,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"give_campaign_id":0,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"mc4wp_mailchimp_campaign":[],"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"subtitle":"Said Dr. Darrell Case, \u201cOnly one previous incidence of continued pregnancy and delivery after fetal intrapericardial teratoma resection is documented in the world\u2019s medical literature.\" It serves as a stark reminder of the miracle of medicine... and also, the gross injustice of abortion.","format":"standard","video":"","gallery":"","source_name":"","source_url":"","via_name":"","via_url":"","override":[{"template":"1","single_blog_custom":"","parallax":"1","fullscreen":"1","layout":"right-sidebar","sidebar":"default-sidebar","second_sidebar":"default-sidebar","sticky_sidebar":"1","share_position":"top","share_float_style":"share-monocrhome","show_share_counter":"1","show_view_counter":"1","show_featured":"1","show_post_meta":"1","show_post_author":"1","show_post_author_image":"1","show_post_date":"1","post_date_format":"default","post_date_format_custom":"Y\/m\/d","show_post_category":"1","post_reading_time_wpm":"300","zoom_button_out_step":"2","zoom_button_in_step":"3","show_post_tag":"1","show_prev_next_post":"1","show_popup_post":"1","number_popup_post":"1"}],"image_override":[{"single_post_thumbnail_size":"crop-500","single_post_gallery_size":"crop-500"}],"trending_post_position":"meta","trending_post_label":"Trending","sponsored_post_label":"Sponsored by","sponsored_post_name":"","sponsored_post_url":"","sponsored_post_logo":"","sponsored_post_desc":""},"jnews_primary_category":{"id":"808"},"jnews_social_meta":{"fb_title":"","fb_description":"","fb_image":"","twitter_title":"","twitter_description":"","twitter_image":""},"jnews_override_counter":{"view_counter_number":"0","share_counter_number":"0","like_counter_number":"0","dislike_counter_number":"0"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[805,808],"tags":[17040,581,821,609,17166],"class_list":["post-127887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-foreground","category-life","tag-cleveland-clinic","tag-illinois","tag-life","tag-new-york","tag-ryan-dillon"],"yoast_head":"\nDoctors perform rare fetal heart surgery to save child - IFN<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/ifamnews.com\/en\/doctors-perform-rare-fetal-heart-surgery-to-save-child\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Doctors perform rare fetal heart surgery to save child\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Said Dr. Darrell Case, \u201cOnly one previous incidence of continued pregnancy and delivery after fetal intrapericardial teratoma resection is documented in the world\u2019s medical literature." 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