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Doctors performed brain surgery on a baby before she was born and now she's thriving. 

<p>On September 14th. Um We were able to have our first ultrasound. We saw baby, we're extremely excited. This was baby number four for Derek and Kenyatta Coleman, a girl named Denver and they were excited. But then at their routine 30 week ultrasound, a nightmare began, saw a doctor and you know, we sat down and then she shared with me that um this something wasn't right. Um in terms of the baby's brain and also her heart was enlarged. The concern was this that big colorful mass you're looking at in baby Denver's brain. It's known as a vein of gale malformation. It shouldn't exist simply put this vein was getting too much blood and too quickly. Ironically, despite all of this blood going to the brain, it's not supplying brain tissue. It's just going through the malformation like a short circuit right back to the heart. Dr Darren Orbach, a radiologist at Boston Children's Hospital typically treats these rare malformations right after a baby is born, but too often that can be too late. 50 to 60% of all babies with this condition will get very sick immediately. For those. It looks like there's about a 40% mortality. So Orbach and his team offered Kenyatta and Derek something new a chance to treat Denver before she was born in utero. Now, keep in mind in utero surgery also means they had to take two patients to the operating room instead of one and they had to then very carefully thready catheter right into the middle of that gigantic blood vessel inside a very tiny baby brain. What was the biggest risk? I would say the biggest risk is the fear of injury to the brain. We are accessing the head uh through the skull and through the dura and back into the big collecting vein. In order to accomplish this, Kenyatta was taken to the operating room and given an epidural and then Denver was rotated into the right position and given anesthesia to keep her from moving. So after learning that she was in an ideal position, that was more confirmation for me like there's no backing out of this. So babies in utero, you sort of baby is flipped so that the back of the head is towards the abdominal wall. So this would be to you as the surgeon here, needle is going to go through the abdominal wall of mom and then through the occipital bone right here. And at that point, we introduced the microcatheter through the needle and and went up through the sinus to get to the big vein and through that needle, these tiny little coils were used to fill up the vein and change that big colorful mass into something that looks like this. The actual procedure itself took just around 20 minutes. Just two days later, Denver was born happy, healthy, both baby and family. So this is Miss Denver Coleman and she is about to change the world, Dr Sanjay Gupta CNN reporting.</p>

Doctors performed brain surgery on a baby in the womb 

Surgery

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A patient soothed himself with piano music while surgeons worked inside his head.

FRIDAY AND WE WILL TELL YOU ABOUT THAT IN A LITTLE BIT. >>> THERE IS A WILD ONE, A MAN IN TEXAS WAS HAVING BRAIN SURGERY WHILE PLAYING THE PIANO. THIS IS ALEX WHO PLAYED A FEW CHORDS WHILE DOCTORS BEGAN MAPPING OUT HIS BRAIN. HE HAD A BRAIN TUMOR AFTER COLLAPSING FROM A SEIZURE. IN ORDER TO REMOVE THE TUMOR HE NEEDED A CRANIOTOMY THEY HAVE TO DO THAT WHILE YOU ARE AWAKE. SO HE PLAYED MUSIC AND TALK TO THE DOCTORS TO MAKE SURE NONE OF HIS MUSICAL ABILITIES WERE

Man plays piano during brain surgery

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A neurology research associate was supposed to be the healthy control in a Yale University study. When a typical brain scan revealed a mass, the UNC-Chapel Hill graduate started screaming. 

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For many of us, being knocked out during surgery seems about right.  After all, who want to watch our own surgery? 