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