Fetal Surgery: Review

Maged Naser, Mohamed MN, Lamia H. Shehata

Abstract


About 1% of all pregnancies have structural abnormalities. During the last thirty years, different experimental studies in large animals, related with the development of diagnostic imaging and fetoscopy, have prompted incredible advancement in the   pathophysiology of different birth defects. Such knowledge applied to intrauterine correction of anomalies has changed the natural history of a several already deadly illnesses, prompting an extensive number of survivors. Fetal intervention, like open fetal surgery, might be demonstrated in meningomyelocele or in inherent cystic adenomatoid malformation, and in sacrococcygeal teratoma, which lead to secondary fetal hydrops. Furthermore, minimally invasive procedures using fetoscopy may have application in an inborn diaphragmatic hernia, in feto-fetal transfusion, in twin pregnancies with acardiac fetus, in the posterior urethral valve, and in hypoplasia of the cardiovascular chambers, with great outcomes. Despite minimally invasive procedures the fact that open fetal surgery and minimally invasive procedures are as yet experimental and still should be completely approved, the correct ultrasound diagnosis and the patient's referral to tertiary centers   giving multidisciplinary fetal services add to the survival of fetuses with inherent diseases of generally fatal evolution.


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Congenital abnormalities/surgery; Fetus/abnormalities; Fetus/surgery; Fetoscopy

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