Fixing Spina Bifida in the Womb

Michigan Medicine performed the state’s first spina bifida fetal surgery in 2014 – and today, that baby is a running, dancing, active five-year-old.

Carter Hilton recently celebrated his fifth birthday and started junior kindergarten. He was the first baby in Michigan to undergo a specialized surgery to repair spina bifida – while he was still in the womb.

Since Carter’s case in 2014, Michigan Medicine has performed roughly 20 similar in-utero surgeries that aim to improve long term outcomes for children with the condition.

Watch: In utero spina bifida repair surgery animation: 0:02:47

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Learn more about Prenatal Care for Myelomeningocele (Spina Bifida) at C.S. Mott Children's Hospital: https://www.mottchildren.org/conditio...

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