At Fetal Care Center Dallas, we offer a multidisciplinary, comprehensive approach to fetal surgery, allowing us to deliver the best outcomes while minimizing the risks to both you and your baby.
Ultrasound-Guided Fetal Interventions
- Thoracentesis for fetal hydrothorax (FHT)
- Thoraco-amniotic shunting for FHT and congenital pulmonary airway malformation (CPAM)
- Vesicocentesis for bladder outlet obstruction (BOO)
- Vesico-amniotic shunting for BOO
- Radiofrequency ablation for Twin Reversed Arterial Perfusion Sequence (TRAP)
- Radiofrequency ablation for monochorionic twins with life-threatening anomaly in one twin
- Interstitial laser devascularization
- Bronchopulmonary sequestration
- Hybrid CPAM
- Sacrococcygeal teratoma
- Epignathus
- Chorioangioma
- Intrauterine blood transfusion
- rH isoimmunization
- Aortic balloon valvuloplasty for Aortic stenosis/Evolving hypoplastic left heart syndrome (HLHS)
- Amnioport to maintain amniotic fluid volume in fetuses with low amniotic fluid due to lower urinary tract obstruction or fetal renal abnormalities
Open Fetal Surgery
- Repair fetal myelomeningocele
- Resection of sacrococcygeal teratoma
- Resection of CPAM
- Resection of pericardial teratoma
- Pacemaker placement for complete heart block
Fetoscopic Surgery
- Selective fetoscopic laser photocoagulation for twin twin transfusion syndrome (TTTS)
- Release of cord entanglement in monoamniotic twins
- Bipolar cautery for monoamniotic TRAP Sequence
- Release of amniotic band syndrome (ABS)
- Fetoscopic endoluminal balloon tracheal occlusion (FETO) for congenital diaphragmatic hernia (CDH)
- Fetal thoracoscopy for cystic CPAM
- Devascularization of chorioangioma
- Placement of vesicostent for BOO
- Laser ablation of posterior urethral valves in BO
- Laser laryngotomy for congenital high airway obstruction syndrome (CHAOS)
- Laser bronchotomy for unilateral bronchial atresia
Ex-Utero Intrapartum Treatment (EXIT Procedures)
- Exit-to-Airway
- Cervical teratoma
- Lymphangioma
- Micrognathia
- Epignathus
- Transthoracic Retrograde Intubation EXIT (TRI-EXIT)
- Cervico-mediatinal teratoma
- EXIT-to-Resection
- CPAM
- Bronchogenic cyst
- Sacrococcygeal teratoma
- EXIT-to-Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation (EXIT-to-ECMO)
- EXIT-to-Cardiopulmonary Bypass
- Hypoplastic left heart with intact atrial septum
- EXIT-to-Pacemaker
- Complete heart block
- EXIT-to-Separation
- Conjoined twins (parasitic twin)
