Ann Arbor-based University of Michigan Health System has become one of 13 hospitals in the country to offer a procedure that partially corrects spina bifida while the foetus is still inside the womb, according to the Detroit Free Press.
The first two-port fetoscopic procedure to repair spina bifida in-utero in the United States was performed in 2014 by surgeons at Texas Children's Fetal Center and Baylor College of Medicine, both located in Houston.
Physicians at University of Michigan Health System performed the procedure C.S. Mott Children's Hospital at U-M in Ann Arbor, according to the report.
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