Maternal–fetal surgery proposal
In Utero Heart Transplantation
ResearchFormal proposal
A feasibility argument for treating selected non-viable fetal cardiac conditions before birth.
Maternal–fetal surgery proposal
A feasibility argument for treating selected non-viable fetal cardiac conditions before birth.
The question
Could the fetal environment make a technically radical intervention physiologically more manageable?
The work
The proposal examines placental support, fetal immune tolerance, size matching, surgical precedent and ethical boundaries. No human in-utero heart transplantation has yet been performed.
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