Editorial: Artificial placenta—a need for fetal surgery?

The need for artificial hearts.

Chronic immunosuppression, allograft coronary disease, and restricted availability of donor organs continue to limit the scope of cardiac transplantation. Meanwhile increasingly favourable experience with implantable blood pumps used as a bridge to transplant has reintroduced the concept of permanent mechanical cardiac support. Existing models (for example, the Thermo Cardiosystems Heartmate de...

Embodied Artificial Life - Editorial

Fetal surgery for myelomeningocele?

The possibility of surgical repair of fetal anomalies in utero has long tantalized obstetricians and pediatric surgeons, especially since the development of high-resolution real-time ultrasonography. The presumption has been that earlier in utero repair would provide superior outcomes for the offspring than would postnatal surgery. However, postnatal treatment is much simpler and is not traumat...

Fetal Surgery

Fetal surgeries are a range of medical interventions performed in utero on the developing fetus [4] of a pregnant woman to treat a number of congential abnormalities. The first documented fetal surgical procedure occurred in 1963 in Auckland, New Zealand when A. William Liley treated fetal hemolytic anemia [5], or Rh disease, with a blood transfusion. Three surgical techniques comprise many fet...

Fetal Surgery

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