Fetal surgery knowledge centre
Know exactly which operation—and which evidence.
Fetal surgery is not one intervention. Each technique has its own disease mechanism, selection criteria, gestational window, maternal implications, evidence base, and long-term follow-up.
After fetal surgery: recovery, surveillance, delivery, and newborn care
Care after fetal surgery continues through maternal recovery, ultrasound surveillance, delivery planning, neonatal treatment, and long-term follow-up.
Read the guide →Anaesthesia and monitoring during fetal surgery
Fetal surgery requires procedure-specific maternal anaesthesia, fetal assessment, obstetric readiness, and neonatal or paediatric support.
Read the guide →Fetal surgery assessment in Abu Dhabi
An evidence-led Abu Dhabi pathway for fetal surgery assessment, planned fetoscopic procedures, candidacy, maternal safety, governance, and referral.
Read the guide →FETO for congenital diaphragmatic hernia: who may benefit?
FETO is a fetoscopic balloon procedure considered for selected severe congenital diaphragmatic hernia after detailed severity and eligibility assessment.
Read the guide →Fetoscopic laser for TTTS: assessment, procedure, and follow-up
Fetoscopic laser treats the placental vascular connections driving selected twin-to-twin transfusion syndrome after specialist staging and counselling.
Read the guide →Fetoscopic spina bifida repair before birth
Prenatal fetoscopic repair of open spina bifida requires detailed imaging, multidisciplinary selection, maternal-risk counselling, and long-term follow-up.
Read the guide →Fetoscopy explained: access, uses, risks, and recovery
Fetoscopy uses a small telescope to inspect or treat the fetus, placenta, or membranes through a carefully planned percutaneous access route.
Read the guide →Maternal risks of fetal surgery and implications for future pregnancy
Fetal surgery has maternal anaesthetic, procedural, obstetric, and future-pregnancy implications that must be discussed separately from fetal benefit.
Read the guide →Urgent fetal-surgery referral: timing, records, and triage
A potential fetal-surgery referral needs rapid specialist triage when disease may progress or an evidence-supported gestational window may close.
Read the guide →What is fetal surgery? Procedures, selection, and care before birth
Fetal surgery is an invasive prenatal treatment for selected conditions after definitive diagnosis, multidisciplinary review, and maternal–fetal risk assessment.
Read the guide →Who may be a candidate for fetal surgery?
Fetal-surgery candidacy depends on diagnostic certainty, severity, gestational age, maternal safety, technical feasibility, evidence, and the alternatives.
Read the guide →Open prenatal myelomeningocele repair and fetoscopic repair are not interchangeable evidence claims. NICE guidance states that fetoscopic prenatal repair should be used only in research; the planned Abu Dhabi pathway remains subject to that governance position and final institutional approval.
Need a case-specific answer?
Send the imaging and the referral question.
Case review determines urgency, diagnostic completion, evidence-based eligibility, and whether a surgical discussion is appropriate.