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SERVICES
Capabilities and Facilities
With a fully equipped team of fetal and pediatric surgeons, maternal fetal
medicine specialists, neonatologists, 24/7 obstetrics and anesthesiology, fetal
cardiologists and dedicated fetal operating room nurses, we perform a full
range of procedures to address fetal anomalies.
Fetal diagnostic
techniques
• Ultrasound and MRI
• Fetal echocardiography (earliest
screening available at 14 weeks)
• Amniocentesis
• Fetal fluid drainage
• Diagnostic fetoscopy
• Percutaneous umbilical cord
blood sampling
• Fetal skin biopsy
• Fetal muscle biopsy
Ultrasound-guided
procedures
• Vesico-amniotic shunting
• Thoraco-amniotic shunting
• Radiofrequency cord ablation
• Fetal blood transfusions
• Fetoscopic surgery
• Fetoscopic Endoluminal
Tracheal Occlusion
• Selective fetoscopic laser
photocoagulation for twin-to-
twin transfusion syndrome
• Fetoscopic release of amniotic
bands
• Bipolar cord coagulation
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Open fetal surgery
• Prenatal repair of
myelomeningocele
• Resection of congenital cystic
adenomatoid malformation of
the lung
• Resection of pericardial
teratoma
EXIT procedures
• Placement of cardiac pacemaker
for congenital heart block
• EXIT to airway
• Cervical teratoma
• Lymphangioma
Subspecialty prenatal
consultation:
• Neurology and neurosurgery
• Colorectal and urogenital
• Ear, nose and throat
• Cleft lip and palate
• Urology
• Congenital heart surgery
• Nephrology
• Endocrinology
• Genetics
• CDH clinic
Additional services
• Epignathus • Psychology
• Congenital high airway
obstruction syndrome • Social work
• Genetic counseling
• Micrognathia
• EXIT to resection
• Congenital pulmonary airway
malformation
• Sacrococcygeal teratoma
• EXIT to ECMO
• CDH with congenital heart
disease
Care for mother and
baby, all under one roof
One of just a few freestanding children’s hospitals in the nation with
a dedicated labor and delivery unit, we offer a single, comfortable
space equipped for every aspect of maternal and fetal treatment, from
prenatal diagnostic testing to postpartum care.
Our space includes 10 rooms for labor, delivery, postpartum recovery
and infant stabilization, as well as triage and ultrasound rooms, a
fetal surgery suite and a C-section suite.
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