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US doctors perform heart surgery on 25-week foetus

US doctors perform heart surgery on 25-week foetus

Rediff.com10 Oct 2013

United States surgeons have successfully performed a rare life-saving heart surgery on a 25-week-old foetus growing inside its mother's womb. Using a hair-fine wire, a miniature needle and a tiny balloon, doctors at a Los Angeles hospital successfully carried out the operation on the unborn child's heart after practising on a grape.