Professional communication and publications
The Center for Fetal Diagnosis and Treatment keeps in contact with referring physicians through regular communication via our print newsletter, a new electronic newsletter, as well as phone and in-person interactions.
Our newsletter, In Utero Insights, keeps you informed about clinical and research advances at the Center that may be of interest to you in the management of your patients.
Recent issues of In Utero Insights include:
Winter 2013, with a focus on:
In CDH, the diaphragm doesn't close properly, leaving a hole in the muscle through which the contents of the abdomen can pass. ©CHOP
- Rare Continuity of Care for Congenital Diaphragmatic Hernia – presents an overview of the comprehensive care required for babies with this complex condition;
- Beyond Therapy: Keeping Family at the Center of Care – focuses on the mental and emotional support services that can help the entire family facing a CDH diagnosis;
- Collaboration Across the Continuum: One-of-a-Kind Team Sets Standard for Specialized Care – highlights CHOP’s Neonatal Surgical Team, a unique approach to treating babies with CDH;
- Advances in Imaging: Employing Expert, Thorough Analysis to Better Predict Outcomes – introduces the careful diagnostic testing and interpretation of results as a standard of care for CDH patients;
- Research Update: Outcomes in CDH Survivors – features long-term neurodevelopmental outcomes data collected by CHOP’s Pulmonary Hypoplasia Program;
- News from the Fetal Heart Program: Pulmonary Hypertension in Children with Lung Hypoplasia – examines the diagnosis of related cardiac conditions that may accompany CDH, and;
- Educational Resources – including a new CDH flip chart, educational DVDs, online CMEs, and upcoming conferences featuring our experts.
Fall 2011, with a focus on:
Placing a pigtail shunt to treat LUTO. ©CHOP
- Pathways to Improved Outcomes - Lower Urinary Tract Obstructions (LUTO) ;
- Urologic issues associated with spina bifida;
- Case study: gender discrepancy;
- Caring for children with exstrophy/epispadias complex;
- Research update: LUTO; and
- Educational resources — 2 new DVDs available from the Center.
Spring 2011 Special Edition, with a focus on:
Fetus with myelomeningocele. ©CHOP
- Birth of a Breakthrough — a landmark study co-led by CHOP found prenatal repair of myelomeningocele (the most severe form of spina bifida) can substantially improve outcomes;
- Major milestones in myelomeningocele research by Center team members;
- New online CME: Fetal Myelomeningocele Repair; and
- This special issue is also available en Español.
Winter 2011 issue, with a focus on:
- Continuum of Care — Abdominal Wall Defects;
- Gastroschisis;
- Omphalocele;
- Individualized support for abdominal wall defects;
- Care for the surgical neonate;
- Case study: Abdominal wall defects; and
- Research update: Pulmonary hypoplasia.
Summer 2010 issue, with a focus on:
- Comprehensive Care for Twin Pregnancies including twin-twin transfusion syndrome (TTTS), monoamniotic twins; twin arterial reversed syndrome (TRAP); conjoined twins and others;
- Supporting families from evaluation through follow up;
- Cardiovascular scoring system for TTTS;
- Sonography of complicated monochorionic twin pregnancies;
- New online CME: Prenatal Management of TTTS; and
- Research update: TTTS.
Winter 2010 issue, with a focus on:
Full body CT showing skeletal dysplasia. ©CHOP
- One team, many disciplines — an introduction to the Center's multidisciplinary approach to care;
- Broad range of services that are coordinated to make the patient experience seamless;
- Advances in imaging: Skeletal dysplasias;
- Fetal heart program: transposition of the great arteries; and
- Snapshot of our Special Delivery Unit, the world's first birth facility for moms carrying babies with fetal anomalies.
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