Abu Dhabi Health Services Company “SEHA” has announced that the Corniche Hospital in Abu Dhabi will perform laser twinoscopy technology in the womb of a woman of Kuwaiti nationality during her pregnancy due to intrauterine complications, as the medical team performed a separation of the circulatory system between the twins inside the womb by a speculum The fetus, the introduction of a laser to separate the vessels between the two fetuses, and the mother was able to complete her pregnancy, and keep the twins.
The embryology consultant and head of embryology and medical imaging at the Corniche Hospital, Dr. Lynn Bricker, said that the specialized medical team of surgeons and an embryo consultant at the Corniche Hospital was able to take the necessary action for the Kuwaiti mother and remove the high risk she and her twins were exposed to.
And she said: "Details of the medical condition go back to a year ago when the Kuwaiti family came to the Emirates to follow up the mother’s pregnancy in the Corniche Hospital, and the birth took place on August 8 of last year 2019, and the child Zina, who was not fully developed, was placed in the intensive care unit of my talk Childbirth, in which she spent nearly a year receiving advanced and specialized medical care that she needed in order for her condition to improve and her weight reached 8 kilograms after it was 600 grams at the time of her birth, noting that her parents were following her condition and watching physical therapy sessions provided to her through the virtual visit service, Every day
, Corniche Hospital CEO Linda Clark said: “One of the accurate operations the Corniche Hospital performs with complete success is the process of separating the blood circulation between the twins inside the mother’s womb through the fetus endoscope, and the introduction of a laser to separate the vessels. Between the two fetuses, so that the pregnancy can be completed and the fetus preserved, and this process is one of the rare operations. The Corniche Hospital in Abu Dhabi is one of the few hospitals in the region that can perform Such operations, as the twin laser endoscopy within the mother’s womb is a highly specialized procedure that is used to treat fetal blood transfusion syndrome.
She added: "The hospital's embryology unit is the only center of its kind in the UAE, and one of the few centers in the Gulf region that provides this specialized surgical treatment, and has performed about 100 laparoscopic and laser operations so far, at the hands of the highly qualified medical team." .
The Corniche Hospital performs a blood circulation separation between twins inside the uterus of a Kuwaiti mother
2020-07-31T04:37:15.386Z
The Abu Dhabi Health Services Company “SEHA” announced that the Corniche Hospital in Abu Dhabi performed laser twinoscopy technology in the womb of a woman of Kuwaiti nationality during her pregnancy due to intrauterine complications, as the medical team performed a separation of the circulatory system between the twins inside
Source: emara