Conditions We Treat

Seattle Children’s Fetal Center regularly helps families whose developing baby has 1 or more fetal conditions, including rare conditions that many doctors never see. Here are some of the many conditions we diagnose and treat:

• Abdominal wall defects, including:
  • Eagle-Barrett syndrome (prune belly syndrome)
  • Gastroschisis
  • Omphalocele
• Abdominal cysts or masses
• Amniotic band syndrome
• Anorectal malformations, including:
  • Cloacal malformation
  • Hirschsprung disease
  • Imperforate anus
• Blood conditions, including:
  • Alloimmunization and fetal anemia
  • Fetal anemia secondary to parvovirus
  • Fetal and neonatal alloimmune thrombocytopenia (NAIT)
• Conditions in monochorionic twins or triplets, including:
  • Discordance for anomalies
  • Selective intrauterine growth restriction (SIUGR)
  • Twin anemia polycythemia syndrome (TAPS)
  • Twin reversed arterial perfusion (TRAP)
  • Twin-to-twin transfusion syndrome (TTTS)
• Congenital diaphragmatic hernia (CDH)
• Conjoined twins
• Craniofacial conditions, such as cleft lip and palate and micrognathia
• Esophageal atresia
• Fetal heart disease, including:
  • Arrhythmias, such as atrial flutter, supraventricular tachycardia and heart block (atrioventricular block)
  • Cardiac rhabdomyoma
  • Fetal heart failure
  • Pericardial effusion
  • Septal defects
  • Single-ventricle defects
  • Valve defects
• Fetal tumors, including:
  • Cardiac rhabdomyoma
  • Cervical teratoma
  • Epignathus
  • Sacrococcygeal teratoma
• Genetic conditions, including:
  • 22q11.2 disorders
  • CHARGE syndrome
  • Down syndrome (trisomy 21)
  • Edwards syndrome (trisomy 18)
  • Heterotaxy
  • Patau syndrome (trisomy 13)
  • Turner syndrome
  • VATER association (VACTERL association)
• Hepatobiliary conditions, including:
  • Biliary atresia
  • Cysts in the liver
  • Choledochal cysts
• Hydrops fetalis
• Intestinal atresia
• Lung, chest or airway problems, including:
  • Congenital high airway obstruction syndrome (CHAOS)
  • Congenital lung malformations, such as congenital lobar emphysema (CLE), congenital pulmonary airway malformation (CPAM) and bronchopulmonary sequestration (BPS)
  • Pleural effusion, including chylothorax
• Neck masses
  • Cervical teratoma
  • Vascular anomalies
• Neurologic conditions, including:
  • Brain malformations, such as Dandy-Walker malformation, holoprosencephaly and agenesis of the corpus callosum
  • Congenital hydrocephalus
  • Neural tube defects, such as acrania, anencephaly, exencephaly, myelomeningocele and spina bifida
• Placenta problems, including:
  • Chorioangioma
  • Unequal placental sharing
  • Twin-to-twin transfusion syndrome (TTTS)
• Renal (kidney) and urologic abnormalities, including:
  • Bladder exstrophy
  • Cloacal exstrophy
  • Cloacal malformation
  • Hydronephrosis (PDF)
  • Lower urinary tract obstruction (LUTO)
  • Multicystic dysplastic kidney (MCDK)
  • Renal agenesis
• Skeletal abnormalities, including:
  • Arthrogryposis
  • Clubfoot
  • Osteogenesis imperfecta
  • Skeletal dysplasia
  • Missing bones
• Vascular anomalies, including:
  • Abernethy malformation (congenital portosystemic shunt)
  • Arteriovenous malformation
  • Lymphatic malformation
  • Vein of Galen malformation

Contact Us

For more information, contact the Fetal Center at 206-987-5629. If you would like an appointment, ask your pregnancy care provider or another specialist for a referral. 

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