Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia Team Performs Lifesaving Fetal Heart Surgery [Video]

For the fourth time in CHOP’s history, team successfully removed a rare tumor from baby’s heart while still in the womb

PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 7, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — When Brailey and Louis Valenzuela from Tennessee went for their 24-week ultrasound in December 2023, they received devastating news. Their unborn daughter, Arley, had a pericardial teratoma, a life-threatening tumor that develops inside the sac surrounding the heart that is typically fatal if it continues to grow and is not removed.

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A world-renowned team performs fetal surgery to remove a tumor on the lining of an unborn baby’s heart.

The Valenzuela Family at home in Maryville, Tennessee.

The couple travelled to Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP), where fetal surgery to remove this kind of tumor was first successfully performed in 2013 and subsequently repeated in 2016 and 2017. They met with experts from CHOP’s Center for Fetal …

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