HOUSTON – (March. 27, 2019) – Surgeons at Texas Children’s Fetal Center® have performed more than 100 in-utero neural tube defect repair surgeries for babies with myelomeningocele, a developmental defect in which the spine is improperly formed and the spinal cord is open to, and fused with, the skin. The condition, also known as spina bifida or an open neural tube defect (NTD), occurs in 3.4 out of every 10,000 live births in the U.S. […]
