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US doctors perform heart surgery on 25-week foetus

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

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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.

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