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Prenatal Diagnosis and Fetal Surgery: World's Most Experienced Fetal Care Center

Pregnant women faced with the devastation of a prenatal diagnosis have found hope and help at the Wood Center for Fetal Diagnosis and Treatment. http://fetalsurgery.chop.edu 800-IN-UTERO (800-468-8376) When a family learns their unborn child has a birth defect, they need accurate information and expert treatment from a caring and compassionate team to ensure the best possible outcome. The Richard D. Wood Jr. Center for Fetal Diagnosis and Treatment at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia is one of the most active maternal-fetal care centers in the world, with unmatched expertise and experience. Center leaders were among the founders of modern fetal medicine and worked alongside other leading surgeons and researchers to develop the techniques used clinically today around the world. In this video, N. Scott Adzick, MD, MMM, Lori J. Howell, DNP, RN, MS, Julie S. Moldenhauer, MD, and Susan Spinner, MSN, RN, discuss what makes the Center the best place for prenatal diagnosis, fetal care and fetal surgery. Since its founding in 1995, the center has had more than 25,000 referrals of pregnant mothers carrying babies with birth defects from all 50 states and more than 70 countries outside the U.S. It's one of only a few fetal centers in the world to offer open fetal surgery for life-threatening conditions, plus a wide range of other fetal therapies including minimally invasive fetoscopic surgery. When choosing a fetal surgery center, families should ask how many fetal surgeries have been performed by the team. At CHOP, our experienced fetal surgeons have performed more than 1,800 prenatal surgeries, more than any other program in the world. One of the only maternal-fetal centers located within a pediatric hospital in the U.S., the center offers comprehensive, family-centered care in one location, from diagnosis, prenatal management, delivery and, in highly selected circumstances, fetal surgery, through postnatal care and long-term follow-up. From the moment a woman contacts the center, she is connected with a dedicated nurse specialized in fetal conditions who coordinates all of her treatment, offers caring counseling and thorough information, serves as a liaison to the care team, and works with insurance companies to ensure she and her family have access to the best treatment options available. A psychosocial service team, including a clinical psychologist, psychiatrist and social workers, provides emotional support, counseling, supportive therapy, and social work services to support families through the emotional and logistical ups and downs of a complicated pregnancy. The center has a large multidisciplinary team made up of every type of specialist a family will need, including fetal diagnosticians, board-certified maternal-fetal medicine specialists, pediatric and fetal surgeons, genetic specialists who can identify and diagnose even the rarest fetal anomalies. The team has diagnosed and treated every type of birth defect or congenital condition a family may be faced with, even rare and complex anomalies. These include spina bifida, genetic abnormalities, structural abnormalities such as diaphragmatic hernia, lung lesions, abdominal wall defects such as gastroschisis and omphalocele, twin-twin transfusion or other twin related problems, and cardiac defects. The center team has particular expertise in prenatal diagnosis and treatment of spina bifida. The center co-led the groundbreaking Management of Myelomeningocele Study (MOMS), an NIH-funded clinical trial that proved fetal repair of myelomeningocele (the most serious form of spina bifida) can produce better outcomes than repair after birth. Fetal surgery is a highly complicated procedure in which a team of expert surgeons operates on the baby while they're still in the womb. Fetal surgery for spina bifida is now a standard of care at the center. CHOP has performed more fetal surgeries for spina bifida than any other program in the world. Where, when and how babies with birth defects are delivered — and which specialists care for them during and immediately after birth — can impact long-term outcomes. The center’s Garbose Family Special Delivery Unit (SDU) is the world’s first birthing unit in a freestanding children’s hospital dedicated exclusively to healthy mothers whose unborn baby has a birth defect. Babies have accessibility to a specialized team of doctors and nurses with experience managing the care mothers and their unborn babies require before, during and after fetal surgery, as well as the care needed at delivery. After delivery, babies receive advanced care in CHOP's Harriet and Ronald Lassin Newborn/Infant Intensive Care Unit, consistently ranked among the best in the nation for newborn care by U.S. News & World Report. CHOP’s neonatology specialists are incredibly experienced taking care of babies who have had fetal surgery, babies with birth defects, and babies who are critically ill or need immediate postnatal care.