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Repair the esophagus of newborns with magnets

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Repair the esophagus of newborns with magnets

Approach, using two magnets, the two sections of an esophagus interrupted due to a rare congenital anomaly, and wait for the two abutments to fuse by themselves.

It is the surgery, performed on 5 babies less than 4 months old born with esophageal atresia, by the surgeons of the Bambino Gesù hospital in Rome, the first in Italy to have applied the magneto-anastomosis, an innovative and minimally invasive technique that without resorting to interventions surgery gives newborns with the rare malformation the ability to feed naturally.

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