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Arley’s Fetal Heart Tumor Journey: How In-Utero Surgery for Pericardial Teratoma Saved Her Life

by Erika K Wolf | Dec 16, 2024 | Blogs, Condition, front-page, News, Pericardial Teratoma, Story, Uncategorized

Time was on baby Arley’s side when she was diagnosed with a rare fetal heart tumor. A narrow window of opportunity exists to remove a mass from a baby’s heart before it gets too large. But lucky for Arley, she was in a good place for the experts at CHOP to perform the in-utero procedure and allow her heart to function normally.

Family Celebrates One-in-a-Million Odds

by Fetal Health Foundation | Jul 11, 2019 | Pericardial Teratoma, Story

During Alysha’s 23rd week of pregnancy, their unborn daughter was diagnosed with a rare tumor growing on her heart. Fewer than one in a million babies develop this type of tumor – called a fetal pericardial teratoma – which often results in death.