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.

Lindsey was 18 weeks pregnant with her fifth child when she got a life-changing phone call. Her blood work was abnormal. She ...

Kourtney Kardashian, 45, says her baby had fluid in his lungs, which prompted her scary emergency fetal surgery in a new episode of The Kardashians. In a June 20 episode of the show, Kourt shares ...

Baylor College of Medicine fetal therapy and surgery specialists rank among the world’s leaders in fetal medicine and perinatal surgery, providing the highest quality care available for pregnancies ...

If the goal is to use organoids to inform prenatal interventions, timing is critical. For the most serious cases of CDH, doctors perform prenatal surgery to implant a balloon that artificially blocks ...

Baylor College of Medicine, through its Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology and the Michael E. DeBakey Department of Surgery, has developed a unique educational program designed to enhance the ...

Wadia Hospital in Mumbai has opened a cutting-edge fetal surgery center specializing in treating open spina bifida, aiming to ...

AI-aided analysis of prenatal ultrasounds detected heart defects more quickly and accurately than doctors evaluating the ...

“I’ve been working toward this day for almost 25 years now,” says Diana Farmer, the world’s first woman fetal surgeon, professor and chair of surgery at UC Davis Health and principal ...

Congenital heart defects (abnormalities of the heart that are present at birth) are the most common type of birth defect and, ...