For now, doctors must make do with what is currently available: fetal surgery. But not everyone agrees about which defects should be treated in utero and which are best left until after birth.

Diagnostic imaging and genetic screens help clinicians catch congenital fetal diseases in utero, but models for studying organ ... For the most serious cases of CDH, doctors perform prenatal surgery ...

The one-of-a-kind treatment, delivered while a fetus is still developing in the mother’s womb ... the world’s first woman fetal surgeon, professor and chair of surgery at UC Davis Health ...

after which the baby is tucked back into its mother’s womb and the uterus sutured closed. While there are substantial risks with fetal surgery, there are benefits to repairing some fetal defects ...

These webinars will feature lectures provided by leading international experts in fetal surgery and will focus on some of the ... how to perform a detailed evaluation of the spina bifida in utero ...