Fetal Diseases

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • A Trial of Hyperimmune Globulin to Prevent Congenital Cytomegalovirus Infection. 
  • A physiologic model of the dehydroepiandrosterone to estrogen conversion system in the fetoplacental unit. I. Development. 
  • A role for maternal serum screening in detecting chromosomal abnormalities in fetuses with isolated choroid plexus cysts: a prospective multicentre study. 
  • A six-month-old boy with neonatal lupus and cardiac enlargement. 
  • A unique case of unilateral synophthalmia. 
  • AIUM practice guideline for the performance of obstetric ultrasound examinations. 
  • Abdominal and obstetric applications of a dynamically focused phased array real time ultrasound system. 
  • Acardius anceps with evidence of intrauterine vascular occlusion: report of a case and discussion of the pathogenesis. 
  • Acceptability of In Utero Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation for Sickle Cell Disease. 
  • Amniotic band syndrome in fetal lambs. I: Fetoscopic release and morphometric outcome. 
  • An association between fetal parvovirus B19 infection and fetal anomalies: a report of two cases. 
  • An inevitable dilemma: prenatal testing for mutations in the BRCA1 breast-ovarian cancer susceptibility gene. 
  • Aneurysm of the vein of Galen: prenatal diagnosis and perinatal management. 
  • Antenatal sonographic features of Walker-Warburg syndrome. Value of endovaginal sonography. 
  • Antenatal ultrasonographic diagnosis of abdominal wall hemangioma: potential to simulate ventral abdominal wall defects. 
  • Antenatal ultrasonographic diagnosis of rhizomelic chondrodysplasia punctata. 
  • Attitudes of paediatric and obstetric specialists towards prenatal surgery for lethal and non-lethal conditions. 
  • Autosomal dominant cataracts of the fetus: early detection by transvaginal ultrasound. 
  • Bronchopulmonary foregut malformations presenting as mass lesions in children: spectrum of imaging findings. 
  • Case series: Combined spinal epidural anesthesia for Cesarean delivery and ex utero intrapartum treatment procedure. 
  • Catheter shunts for fetal hydronephrosis and hydrocephalus. Report of the International Fetal Surgery Registry. 
  • Cell-Free DNA Screening: Complexities and Challenges of Clinical Implementation. 
  • Cerebellar vermian defects: antenatal sonographic appearance and clinical significance. 
  • Cesarean delivery for fetal malformations. 
  • Changing rates of cesarean delivery: the Duke experience, 1978-1986. 
  • Chorionic villus ultrastructure in type II glycogen storage disease (Pompe's disease). 
  • Choroid plexus-ventricular wall separation in fetuses with normal-sized cerebral ventricles at sonography: postnatal outcome. 
  • Corticosteroids for fetuses with congenital diaphragmatic hernia: can we show benefit? 
  • Cyst of the velum interpositum: antenatal ultrasonographic features and differential diagnosis. 
  • Cytomegalovirus Screening in Pregnancy: A Cost-Effectiveness and Threshold Analysis. 
  • Diagnosis of cardiac defects: where we've been, where we are and where we're going. 
  • Diffuse neonatal hemangiomatosis: imaging findings in two patients. 
  • Diminution in size of a fetal intrathoracic mass: caution against aggressive in utero management. 
  • Ethical challenges in the new world of maternal-fetal surgery. 
  • Evolving fetal hydranencephaly mimicking intracranial neoplasm. 
  • FOXN1 mutation abrogates prenatal T-cell development in humans. 
  • Fetal and maternal manifestations of tuberous sclerosis complex: Value of fetal MRI. 
  • Fetal cerebral ventriculomegaly: misidentification of the true medial boundary of the ventricle at US. 
  • Fetal echocardiography and fetal cardiology: indications, diagnosis and management. 
  • Fetal gallstones in a contracted gallbladder: potential to simulate hepatic or peritoneal calcification. 
  • Fetal gastrointestinal abnormalities. 
  • Fetal ovarian torsion appearing as a solid abdominal mass. 
  • Fetal porencephaly: a review of etiology, diagnosis, and prognosis. 
  • Fetal renal vein thrombosis, hydrops fetalis, and maternal lupus anticoagulant. A case report. 
  • First trimester screening. 
  • Flow cytometric methods for prenatal and neonatal diagnosis. 
  • GPER1 is required to protect fetal health from maternal inflammation. 
  • Gestational Stage and IFN-λ Signaling Regulate ZIKV Infection In Utero. 
  • Human trophoblasts confer resistance to viruses implicated in perinatal infection. 
  • Indications for fetal echocardiography. 
  • Infections at the maternal-fetal interface: an overview of pathogenesis and defence. 
  • Lethal multiple pterygium syndrome: antenatal ultrasonographic diagnosis. 
  • Liver-specific glucose-6-phosphatase is not present in human placenta. 
  • MR imaging of fetal goiter. 
  • Management Considerations for Ongoing Pregnancies Complicated by Trisomy 13 and 18. 
  • Management of fetal cardiac arrhythmias. 
  • Mild fetal renal pelviectasis. Differentiation from hilar vascularity using color Doppler sonography. 
  • Neonatal-perinatal infections: an update. 
  • Nerve growth factor, brain-derived neurotrophic factor, and neurotrophin-3 levels in human amniotic fluid. 
  • Normal fetal pelvis: important factors for morphometric characterization with US. 
  • Normal sonographic appearance of the fetal neck late in the first trimester: the pseudomembrane. 
  • Nutritional regulation of insulin-like growth factor-binding protein gene expression in the ovine fetus and pregnant ewe. 
  • Obesity in pregnancy. 
  • Obstetric management of a fetus with nonlethal osteogenesis imperfecta. 
  • Organogenesis particularly relevant to fetal surgery. 
  • Outcome in children with fetal mild ventriculomegaly: a case series. 
  • PROLONGED RUPTURE OF FETAL MEMBRANES. 
  • Parasitic infections in pregnancy. 
  • Perinatal management of a lingual teratoma. 
  • Physician views regarding the benefits and burdens of prenatal surgery for myelomeningocele. 
  • Prediction of outcome in fetal autoimmune complete heart block. 
  • Pregnancy complicated by foetal abdominal mass: Fetiform teratoma versus foetus-in-fetu. 
  • Prenatal Diagnosis, Management, and Treatment of Fetal Cardiac Disease. 
  • Prenatal Treatment of Congenital Cytomegalovirus With Valganciclovir: A Case Report. 
  • Prenatal counseling in heterozygotes for ornithine transcarbamylase deficiency. 
  • Prenatal course of isolated muscular ventricular septal defects diagnosed only by color Doppler sonography: single-institution experience. 
  • Prenatal diagnosis and perinatal management of fetal sacrococcygeal teratoma. 
  • Prenatal diagnosis and the pediatric surgeon: the impact of prenatal consultation on perinatal management. 
  • Prenatal diagnosis of Duchenne muscular dystrophy by fetal muscle biopsy. 
  • Prenatal diagnosis of Sanfilippo syndrome type A by early amniocentesis. 
  • Prenatal diagnosis of a trauma-related fetal epidural hematoma. 
  • Prenatal diagnosis of metabolic disease. 
  • Prenatal diagnosis of molybdenum cofactor deficiency by assay of sulphite oxidase activity in chorionic villus samples. 
  • Prenatal diagnosis: essentials for the pediatric surgeon. 
  • Prenatal gene tranfer: scientific, medical, and ethical issues: a report of the Recombinant DNA Advisory Committee. 
  • Prenatal screening for thrombophilia: the background and the approach. 
  • Prenatal test for X-linked severe combined immunodeficiency by analysis of maternal X-chromosome inactivation and linkage analysis. 
  • Prenatal ultrasonographic findings associated with short bowel syndrome in two fetuses with gastroschisis. 
  • Prenatal ultrasound findings of linear nevus sebaceous and its association with cystic adenomatoid malformation of the lung. 
  • Principles and applications of a dynamically focused phased array real time ultrasound system. 
  • Procainamide cardioversion of fetal supraventricular tachyarrhythmia. 
  • Putting the "M" back in maternal-fetal medicine. 
  • Remifentanil for fetal immobilization and analgesia during the ex utero intrapartum treatment procedure under combined spinal-epidural anaesthesia. 
  • SMFM Fetal Anomalies Consult Series #4: Genitourinary anomalies. 
  • Severe factor V deficiency presenting with intracranial haemorrhage during gestation. 
  • Severe fetal and neonatal hemolytic anemia due to a 198 kb deletion removing the complete β-globin gene cluster. 
  • Sonographic evaluation of fetal CNS: technical and interpretive pitfalls. 
  • Sonography of the fetal gastrointestinal tract: anatomic variants, diagnostic pitfalls, and abnormalities. 
  • Spontaneous regression of fetal ascites in utero in an adolescent. 
  • Spontaneous resolution of a cystic neck mass in a fetus with normal karyotype. 
  • The association of aneuploidy and unexplained elevated maternal serum alpha-fetoprotein. 
  • The association of echogenic fetal lungs with trisomy 21. 
  • The biology and ethics of banking fetal liver hematopoietic stem cells for in utero transplantation. 
  • The case for careful examination of the placenta. Helpful information from the delivery room. 
  • The dehydroepiandrosterone loading test. III. A possible placental function test. 
  • The fetal gastrointestinal tract. 
  • The placenta--an overlooked organ. 
  • Third ventricle: size and appearance in normal fetuses through gestation. 
  • Thrombosis, thrombophilia, and thromboprophylaxis in pregnancy. 
  • Treatment of severe combined immunodeficiency. 
  • Type III Interferons Produced by Human Placental Trophoblasts Confer Protection against Zika Virus Infection. 
  • Ultrasound diagnosis of fetal anomalies associated with in utero cocaine exposure: further support for cocaine-induced vascular disruption teratogenesis. 
  • Unusual presentations of fetal teratoma. 
  • Utility of fetal echocardiogram in high-risk patients. 
  • Variant of atelosteogenesis? Report of a 20-week fetus. 
  • Zika virus - reigniting the TORCH. 
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  Keywords of People

  • Berchuck, Andrew, James M. Ingram Distinguished Professor of Gynecologic Oncology, Obstetrics and Gynecology, Gynecologic Oncology
  • Bradford, William Dalton, Professor of Pathology, Pathology
  • Charles, Hal Cecil, Adjunct Associate Professor in the Department of Radiology, Radiology
  • Freemark, Michael Scott, Robert C. Atkins, M.D. and Veronica Atkins Distinguished Professor of Pediatrics, in the School of Medicine, Pediatrics, Endocrinology