
Patient
Services: Center for
Advanced Fetal Therapy
The Center for
Advanced Fetal Therapy provides prenatal diagnosis and genetics
counseling. The ultrasound unit at the Division of Maternal-Fetal
Medicine in Hofheimer Hall is nationally recognized for providing the
highest quality patient care and for contributing to research in
obstetrical and gynecological ultrasound.
The unit is fully
accredited by the American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine, a
reflection of the high standard of ultrasound imaging provided. Ten
full-time registered diagnostic medical sonographers, and six
Maternal-Fetal Medicine specialists, who provide comprehensive
ultrasound examinations, staff the unit. The unit is equipped with the
most advanced ultrasound equipment and software including color Doppler
machines with 3-D/4-D imaging.
In a friendly and
comforting environment, the program offers the following ultrasound
services:
- Targeted
obstetrics/gynecology ultrasound examinations
- 3D / 4D
ultrasonography
- Transvaginal
ultrasound examinations
- Fetal
echocardiography
- Amniocentesis
- Chorionic Villus
Sampling (CVS)
- Percutaneous
Umbilical Blood Sampling (PUBS)
- Fetal transfusions
and other in utero fetal therapies
- Detailed Obstetric
& Gynecologic Doppler evaluations
- Sonohysterography
- Multifetal
pregnancy reduction
- Ovarian cancer
screening
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