{"id":327049,"date":"2025-03-03T12:45:53","date_gmt":"2025-03-03T18:45:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=327049"},"modified":"2025-03-03T08:36:21","modified_gmt":"2025-03-03T14:36:21","slug":"hope-preborn-baby-cured-disorder-prenatal-treatment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/hope-preborn-baby-cured-disorder-prenatal-treatment\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Real hope’: Preborn baby girl cured of rare genetic disorder through prenatal treatment"},"content":{"rendered":"
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For the first time, physicians have <\/span>successfully cured<\/span><\/a> a child of a rare disorder known as type 1 spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) by beginning treatment while she was still in the womb.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

In a new study, physicians have documented how a preborn child was treated for SMA through her mother taking the medication while still pregnant, rather than waiting for the child to be born to administer treatment. The report details how the child absorbed the medication through her mother\u2019s umbilical cord and amniotic fluid.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Now, after two and a half years outside the womb, the child has shown no signs of having SMA, leading pediatric neurologist Michelle Farrar <\/span>to determine<\/span><\/a> that she has been \u201ceffectively treated, with no manifestations of the condition.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n