Pediatric Services
Fetal Care and Treatment Center
Fetal surgery
Fetal surgery can offer hope of correcting or minimizing a variety of life-threatening or potentially disabling conditions affecting the fetus, helping to both facilitate delivery of a healthy child and protect the health of the mother.
For certain conditions fetal surgery now represents the standard of care — for example, in myelomeningocele, the most serious form of spina bifida that can limit a child’s future mobility, learning ability and bowel/bladder function. Surgery is also standard for twin-to-twin transfusion syndrome, a condition in which blood flow between twins becomes abnormal. Benefits for both conditions have been proven in randomized clinical trials.
For other conditions, prenatal surgery represents a new and powerful option for physicians and parents to consider as they seek to balance potential impacts to the mother’s health against those of the new child.
Conditions we treat
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Conditions we diagnose and treat with fetal surgery include:
- Spina bifida (myelomenigocele)
- Monochorionic Twin Syndromes
- Lower Urinary Tract Obstruction (LUTO)
- Sacrococcygeal teratomas (SCT)
- Amniotic band syndrome
- Congenital heart defects
- Hydrops
- Fetal anemia
Stories of hope
Getting in touch with us
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Physicians, patients and families can contact the Fetal Care and Treatment Center to find out more about our fetal care services.
Wondering about what types of conditions should be referred to us? View list of conditions to refer.
Referring physicians from other facilities, please use our Fetal Care and Treatment Center Referral form to refer patients and request services.
UC Davis Children’s Hospital
4301 X Street, 1st Floor, Suite 1501
Sacramento, CA 95817
The Fetal Care and Treatment Center is located within UC Davis Children’s Hospital.
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An important distinctionA level I Children’s Surgery Center
UC Davis Children’s Hospital was the first hospital on the West Coast, and only the fourth in the nation, to earn verification as a level I Children’s Surgery Center by the American College of Surgeons (ACS), the world standard bearer for surgical quality.
Level I centers have children’s surgeons in every discipline, with pediatric anesthesiologists and dedicated operating rooms for children available 24 hours a day.
