After undergoing prenatal heart surgery at just 24 weeks of gestation while still in his mother’s womb, Tucker Roussin, now 3 years old, is alive and doing well.
He is the first successful survivor of fetal heart surgery to remove an intrapericardial teratoma, a rare and life-threatening heart tumor.
Roussin’s case and findings from his surgery have been published online in the American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology, by Jack Rychik, MD, director of the Fetal Heart Program at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) and Nahla Khalek, MD, from the Center for Fetal Diagnosis and Treatment at CHOP.
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