Fetal Diagnosis & Treatment
Fetal Diagnosis & Treatment
The Fetal Diagnosis & Treatment Center offers comprehensive fetal services, utilizing the latest technological advances in diagnostics, minimally invasive surgeries and open surgeries.
Our Approach
Using a collaborative approach that’s centered around the family’s needs, our compassionate group of physicians and nurses provide expertise and continuity of care for a pregnant mother carrying a fetus with a birth defect.
Our Center builds on a long-standing collaboration between Von Voigtlander Women's Hospital, C.S. Mott Children's Hospital and established prenatal programs including the Congenital Heart Center’s fetal heart program. Having the children's hospital and our state-of-the-art birth center under one roof allows us to provide care for high-risk pregnant mothers and their unborn babies, and transition care seamlessly after birth to our Level IV newborn intensive care unit (NICU) and world-class pediatric subspecialists.
The Fetal Diagnosis & Treatment Center is supported by cutting-edge basic science, and translational and clinical research focused on understanding fetal anomalies. Our team consists of physicians and nurses from maternal fetal medicine, pediatric and fetal surgery, maternal and pediatric anesthesiology, radiology, and pediatric medical and surgical subspecialties. As a multidisciplinary group we work together to manage high-risk pregnancies, optimize fetal well being, educate and support families and provide hope to the tiniest of patients.
Services
We offer the following services:
- Prenatal diagnostic testing: We offer our patients access to state-of-the-art diagnostic testing. Prenatal testing can involve blood tests, imaging studies, chromosome analysis and other genetic testing to assess your health as well as the baby's health.
- Prenatal counseling
- Maternal-fetal intervention
- Pregnancy management
Although the majority of babies with a birth defect are best managed after delivery, select patients benefit from fetal surgery. We provide in-depth consultation with specialists and anticipatory guidance for families. We also perform the very latest minimally invasive interventions, utilizing a team of specialists dedicated to maternal-fetal medicine.
- Aortic Stenosis
- Bladder Outlet Obstruction
- Bronchopulmonary Sequestration (lung malformation)
- Cervical Teratoma/Giant Neck Mass
- Cleft Lip and Cleft Palate
- Congenital Cystic Adenomatoid Malformation (lung malformation)
- Congenital Diaphragmatic Hernia (CDH)
- Congenital High Airway Obstruction Syndrome (CHAOS)
- Congenital Pulmonary Airway Malformations (lung malformation)
- Esophageal Atresia with or without Tracheoesophageal Fistula (EA/TEF)
- Fetal Endoscopic Tracheal Occlusion (FETO)
- Gastroschisis
- Hemolytic disease of the newborn (HDN) or Alloimmunization
- Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome (HLHS)
- Multiple Gestations, Care and Management
- Myelomeningocele (Spina Bifida)
- Omphalocele
- Pleural Effusion
- Sacrococcygeal Teratoma
- Selective Intrauterine Growth Restriction (sIUGR)
- Small Bowel Obstruction
- Twin Anemia Polycythemia Sequence (TAPS)
- Twin Reversed Arterial Perfusion (TRAP)
- Twin-to-Twin Transfusion Syndrome (TTTS)
Appointment Information
To make an appointment, please call 734-763-6295.
Patient Resources
Locations
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Fetal Diagnosis and Treatment Center | Von Voigtlander Women's Hospital 1540 E Hospital Dr
Floor 9
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-4264Get Directions
Doctors
Deborah Rose Berman, MD
Clinical Professor
Maternal & Fetal Medicine, Obstetrics & Gynecology
Jennifer Cate, MD
Clinical Assistant Professor
Maternal & Fetal Medicine, Obstetrics & Gynecology
Mark Christopher Chames, MD
Clinical Associate Professor
Maternal & Fetal Medicine, Obstetrics & Gynecology
Joseph Thomas Church, MD
Clinical Assistant Professor
Pediatric Surgery, Surgery
Caitlin Madden Clifford, MD
Clinical Assistant Professor
Maternal & Fetal Medicine, Obstetrics & Gynecology
Jill Kent Davies, MD
Clinical Professor
Obstetrics & Gynecology, Maternal & Fetal Medicine
Sarah Marie Davis, MD
Clinical Associate Professor
Maternal & Fetal Medicine, Obstetrics & Gynecology
Joshua Sunny George, MD
Clinical Assistant Professor
Maternal & Fetal Medicine, Obstetrics & Gynecology
Patricia Stephanie Greco, MD
Clinical Assistant Professor
Maternal & Fetal Medicine, Obstetrics & Gynecology
Ashley Megan Hesson, MD
Assistant Professor
Obstetrics & Gynecology, Maternal & Fetal Medicine
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