When a mother arrived at her doctor’s office for an ultrasound, they diagnosed her baby with a rare pre-birth condition and a 1 percent chance of survival. A month later, they completed the first successful fetal brain surgery to save the baby's life.
. Babies with the condition can suffer from severe brain damage, heart failure and cognitive disabilities due to excess blood flow to those organs,Treatment for a vein of Galen malformation usually occurs after childbirth, but doctors gave Denver a 1 percent chance of surviving as she suffered from a severe case.
On March 15, Coleman reclined on a Brigham and Women’s Hospital bed and listened to gospel music on her ear buds while undergoing the procedure. Using ultrasound footage to guide them, doctors guided a needle through Coleman’s uterus and into the back of the unborn baby’s skull. After they moved a large vein in the back of the fetus’s brain to connect it to another artery, Coleman watched doctors pull the needle out of her unborn child’s skull to finish a successful surgery.
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