{"id":2653,"date":"2025-10-25T15:42:51","date_gmt":"2025-10-25T08:42:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/museum.pctu.com.vn\/?p=2653"},"modified":"2025-12-09T14:38:25","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T07:38:25","slug":"the-most-extraordinary-fetal-surgery-for-twins-in-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/museum.pctu.com.vn\/index.php\/language\/en\/2025\/10\/25\/the-most-extraordinary-fetal-surgery-for-twins-in-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"The Most Extraordinary Fetal Surgery for Twins in the World"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\" data-start=\"91\" data-end=\"381\">After six months of pregnancy, <strong data-start=\"122\" data-end=\"140\">Keri McCartney<\/strong>, a woman from Laredo, Texas (USA), went for an ultrasound and was terrified to discover a dangerous mass growing abnormally on her baby\u2019s tailbone.<br data-start=\"288\" data-end=\"291\" \/>This mass was obstructing the blood supply to the fetus and posed a life-threatening risk.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"383\" data-end=\"437\">A fetal surgery to save the baby was urgently planned.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\" data-start=\"439\" data-end=\"771\">After administering anesthesia, surgeons at <strong data-start=\"483\" data-end=\"513\">Histon Children\u2019s Hospital<\/strong> opened Keri\u2019s uterus and delivered <strong data-start=\"549\" data-end=\"582\">about 80% of the fetus\u2019s body<\/strong> outside the womb, keeping only the head and shoulders inside the mother.<br data-start=\"655\" data-end=\"658\" \/>They quickly removed the mass and then placed the baby back into the uterus, closing the amniotic sac around her.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\" data-start=\"773\" data-end=\"1013\">During the procedure, the surgeons were astonished to find that what they had believed to be a tumor was actually a <strong data-start=\"889\" data-end=\"907\">parasitic twin<\/strong> attached to the baby\u2019s body. This was a rare form of twinning in which one fetus develops upon the other.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\" data-start=\"1015\" data-end=\"1144\">Ten weeks after being placed back into the womb, the baby girl was born perfectly healthy and was named <strong data-start=\"1119\" data-end=\"1143\">Macie Hope McCartney<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After six months of pregnancy, Keri McCartney, a woman from Laredo, Texas (USA), went for an ultrasound and was terrified to discover a dangerous mass growing abnormally on her baby\u2019s&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-global-healthcare","category-uncategorized-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/museum.pctu.com.vn\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2653","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/museum.pctu.com.vn\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/museum.pctu.com.vn\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/museum.pctu.com.vn\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/museum.pctu.com.vn\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2653"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/museum.pctu.com.vn\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2653\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2654,"href":"https:\/\/museum.pctu.com.vn\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2653\/revisions\/2654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/museum.pctu.com.vn\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/museum.pctu.com.vn\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/museum.pctu.com.vn\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}