Word: hydrocephalus
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...most rudimentary level, the videotape machine enables a psychologist to record a baby's wriggling and demonstrate that it often moves in rhythm with its mother's voice. At the most complex levels, surgeons at Prentice Women's Hospital in Chicago can diagnose prenatal hydrocephalus (a brain-damaging excess of cerebrospinal fluid) in a fetus, then introduce a plastic tube into the mother's uterus and into the fetus' head to drain off the surplus fluid inside its brain. Guiding many of these technological innovations is the ubiquitous computer, which can synthesize a mother...
Only three days after the San Francisco operation, according to the Denver Post, surgeons at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center used a drainage tube to treat hydrocephalus, a buildup of cerebrospinal fluid in the brain cavity, in a 24-week-old fetus. Says Harrison: "The next step is opening the uterus, fixing something and closing it back up again to allow the baby to develop normally...