Fetal Medicine

Specialised care and treatment of fetus at risk is fetal medicine.it encompasses specialised treatment of such women.

Prenatal Ultrasound

Ultrasonography allows detection of many major malformations and is important modality to assess fetal well being by Doppler ultrasonography.

Fetal Aneuploidies

Prenatal detection of fetal aneuploidies. Common chromosomal causes can be detected by screening blood tests.

Amniocentesis, Chorionic villous biopsy

These are diagnostic test carried out to test for chromosomal, genetic abnormalities.

Fetal reductions

These are done in multifetal gestations like triplets , quadruplets, quintuplets and rarely twins in order to increase chances of survival and near term or term delivery of surviving fetus.

Intrauterine procedures

In special circumstances, intrauterine fetal procedures like fetal pleural tapping, fetal bladder drainage, intraamniotic medicine instillation, intrauterine transfusions.