Babies diagnosed with Spina Bifida are being offered an innovative and less invasive way to be treated.
Many patients choose to travel to St. Louis to have this surgery with some coming from quite a distance away.
The surgery is performed in our Fetal Care Center, the only one in the area, and one of the only ones in the Midwest that perform the surgery on infants with a specific form of Spina Bifida, called Myelomeningocele, in the womb.
The partnership between Barnes-Jewish Hospital, St. Louis Children’s Hospital, and Washington University makes this possible. In previous years, this surgery could only be done after a baby was born.