Who needs a Maternal-Fetal Medicine Specialist?
The discipline of Maternal-Fetal Medicine involves four major subgroups of patients: • Patients undergoing diagnostic or therapeutic procedures, such as: • Abdominal cerclage • Chorionic villus sampling • Comprehensive ultrasound • Fetal gene therapy • Fetal blood sampling • Fetal transfusion • Fetal muscle/organ biopsy • Fetal reduction • Fetal skin sampling • Fetoscopy/embryoscopy • Genetic amniocentesis • Other diagnostic/therapeutic modalities • Patients with medical and surgical disorders, such as: • Antiphospholipid Antibodies • Cardiac disease (Clark’s Group II, III, any valve replacement) • Chronic renal disease • Chronic Hypertension • CNS Disease: • seizure disorders • multiple sclerosis • AV malformation • berry aneurysm • prolactinoma • pseudotumor cerebri • SLE/Other collagen vascular disease • Congenital disorders with potential untoward outcomes • cystic fibrosis • Marfan’s syndrome • Protein S, C, AT-III deficiency • Endocrinologic disorders • Addison’s Disease • Diabet
