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| A foetal cardiac intervention was successfully performed by doctors from Từ Dũ Hospital and Children’s Hospital 1 in HCM City, the first ever in Southeast Asia. — Photo from Từ Dũ Hospital |
HCM CITY – Doctors from Từ Dũ Hospital and Children’s Hospital 1 in HCM City successfully performed a foetal cardiac surgery on January 4, the first ever not just in Việt Nam but in Southeast Asia.
It was done to unclog the foetus’s heart valve through the mother’s womb.
In early November, in the 26th week of pregnancy, the baby was diagnosed with a severe congenital heart defect: it…
