Updated On: 10 October, 2013 02:42 PM IST | | PTI
US 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
The procedure to open up a narrow aortic valve in the heart of the unborn baby is known as a foetal aortic valvuloplasty.
Doctors diagnosed the foetus as suffering from severe aortic stenosis, meaning the baby's aortic valve was very tight.