Conditions Managed by the Fetal Health Center
Better outcomes for moms and babies
Often, conditions identified in the womb can be treated with fetal surgery before birth.
We use needle-guided techniques to treat the following conditions:
- Fetal percutaneous umbilical blood sampling (PUBS) procedures, with or without transfusion
- Fetal thoracoamniotic shunt placements
- Fetal vesicoamniotic shunt placements
- Amnioreductions
- Fetal paracentesis
- Fetal thoracocentesis
- Fetal cyst aspiration/drainage
Fetal conditions we see at Children's Mercy
Here are some conditions that are often treated with intervention:
- Amniotic band sequence
- Bilateral multicystic dysplastic kidney
- Bladder exstrophy
- Bladder outlet obstruction
- Bronchogenic cyst
- Bronchopulmonary sequestration
- Cleft lip / cleft palate
- Correction of cloaca and cloacal exstrophy
- Congenital diaphragmatic hernia (CDH)
- Congenital heart disease
- Congenital high airway obstruction syndrome (CHAOS)
- Congenital lobar emphysema (CLE)
- Conjoined twins
- Cystic pulmonary airway malformation (CPAM)
- Dysgnathia / Agnathia
- Duodenal atresia
- Esophageal atresia
- Fetal lung lesions
- Fetal neck masses
- Gastroschisis
- Hydrocephalus
- Hydronephrosis
- Hydrops fetalis
- Imperforate anus
- Intra-abdominal cysts
- Laryngeal atresia
- Lower urinary tract obstruction
- Monochorionic twins
- Obstructive uropathy
- Omphalocele
- Pleural effusions
- Posterior urethral valves
- Sacrococcygeal teratoma
- Selective intrauterine growth restriction
- Small bowel atresia
- Spina bifida
- Tracheoesophageal fistula
- Twin-to-twin transfusion syndrome (TTTS)
- Twin reversed arterial perfusion (TRAP) sequence