A newborn suffering from nasal myelomeningocele was saved with an endoscopic intervention. The surgery, performed at the Regina Margherita Children's Hospital of the City of Health in Turin, would have no precedent in the world on such a small patient.
The problem was that the hole was located in the backmost part of the nose and therefore that the portion of the brain that descended into the nose (very voluminous) obstructed the passage of air, causing increasingly difficult breathing.