Fetal surgery allows doctors to treat certain abnormalities of the fetus that might otherwise be fatal or cause significant problems if permitted to progress.
Fetal surgery, antenatal surgery, or maternal-fetal surgery.
Open fetal surgery is used for conditions that cannot be treated endoscopically.
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Fetal surgical techniques offer early intervention in order to treat such defects before they become more serious.
Myelomeningocele. Also called spina bifida, myelomeningocele is a condition in which the spine fails to close properly during early fetal development.
The first open fetal surgery took place at the University of California at San Francisco (UCSF) in 1981.
Preparation for endoscopic fetoscopy will depend on the extent of the procedure, and whether it is performed transcervically or transabdominally. Obtaining a small fetal tissue sample is a smaller procedure by comparison to fetal surgery.
It is an incision into the uterus done during a cesarean section, open fetal surgery , and some second-trimester abortions
surgery to correct a urachus (a tube that connects the fetal bladder to the umbilical cord) that fails to close after birth.
Arrange bed rest, near hospital until delivery, betamethasone (to promote fetal lung growth), wear a fetal monitor, medications (terbutalin, indocin suppositories, magnesium sulfate, nifedipine).
Inserting a device into the fetal bladder to drain urine into the amniotic sac.
Premature birth, birth during surgery, infection, spinal cord and nerve damage when treating spina bifida, brain damage, physical deformities, death.