{"id":163542,"date":"2017-03-12T11:11:16","date_gmt":"2017-03-12T15:11:16","guid":{"rendered":"\/news\/?p=163542"},"modified":"2017-03-10T18:18:25","modified_gmt":"2017-03-10T23:18:25","slug":"first-utero-heart-surgery-ohio-performed-29-week-old-preborn-child","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/first-utero-heart-surgery-ohio-performed-29-week-old-preborn-child\/","title":{"rendered":"First in utero heart surgery in Ohio performed on 29-week-old preborn child"},"content":{"rendered":"
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On February 22, 2017, a preborn baby boy became the first person in Ohio to receive heart surgery while still in the womb. His mother, Stephanie Hartman, learned during pregnancy that her son had hypoplastic left-heart syndrome along with a leaky mitral valve.<\/p>\n

While doctors usually wait until after birth to perform surgery for hypoplastic left-heat syndrome, the addition of the faulty mitral valve diagnosis meant that the baby would have more difficulty after birth. According to Dr. Aimee Armstrong of Nationwide Children’s Hospital, only 10 percent of babies with similar conditions live beyond six months of age. In utero surgery was his best chance.<\/p>\n

“We wanted to do anything we could to help him,” Hartman told The\u00a0Columbus Dispatch<\/a>. “Knowing how bad it was, I thought it pretty much was our only hope.”<\/p>\n