At 25 weeks pregnant, Sam Drinnon learned that her unborn baby had a tumor compressing the heart — and doctors would need to perform surgery to keep the fetus alive. "Everything was perfectly fine," Drinnon told NBC News correspondent Kate Snow.

UPPER EAST SIDE, Manhattan (WABC) -- Surgery was a success for 6-month-old Analeigha Branford, who had developed a rare vascular birthmark that put her eyesight at risk. After a 2 hour procedure, doctors at the Manhattan Eye, Ear and Throat Hospital were ...

BOSTON-- A team of doctors in Boston successfully performed a novel fetal surgery to treat a rare brain condition known as vein of Galen malformation. Although in utero surgery -- performed before a baby is born -- has been used for other conditions, this ...

When Megan Wild delivered her son Luciano, she experienced not only childbirth but also a medical first. During her delivery, doctors performed open heart surgery on Luciano in the first successful operation of its kind. "I was really scared of what could ...

UPPER EAST SIDE, Manhattan (WABC) -- A 6-month-old baby is undergoing urgent surgery Friday due to a vascular birthmark that has put her eyesight at risk. Being a parent to a newborn is exhausting, but for Deanna Vaivao, it has been even more challenging ...

She’s a walking miracle. Five-year-old Piper-Kohl Kelly defied all odds when doctors diagnosed her with spina bifida and claimed she wouldn’t have the ability to walk. Now, the young girl not only walks but runs. “Sometimes it doesn’t feel real.

A California girl has beaten the odds to reunite with her twin and return home with her family after a six-month stay at a San Diego hospital. Charlotte and her twin sister, Olivia, were born to Karla and Joshua Valliere last December, but in January ...

BOSTON (CNN) - Doctors in Boston performed a procedure first of its kind last month when they successfully performed brain surgery on a baby while in utero. The baby had a rare condition with a 40% mortality rate. Doctors thought fixing the problem before ...

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