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Advanced fetal treatment and surgery

The Colorado Fetal Care Center (CFCC) offers comprehensive fetal and maternal care for women facing a pregnancy with a known fetal anomaly. We treat the breadth of fetal conditions, from twin-to-twin transfusion syndrome (TTTS) and congenital diaphragmatic hernia (CDH) to gastroschisis and myelomeningocele (MMC) repair (spina bifida repair).

Our team of top fetal surgeons, physicians and experts in maternal fetal medicine, fetal surgery and pediatric subspecialties are part of a partnership between Children’s Hospital Colorado, University of Colorado Hospital and University of Colorado School of Medicine.

The Colorado Fetal Care Center fetal care specialists provide obstetric and pediatric subspecialty consultation and a full spectrum of prenatal imaging, diagnostic capabilities and fetal treatment – from shunts and open fetal surgery, to fetoscopic surgery and Ex Utero Intrapartum Treatment (EXIT) procedures. The fetal care specialists team is led by fetal surgeon and CFCC Director Dr. Timothy Crombleholme, who pioneered the first-ever EXIT procedure, which has helped the Center achieve some of the best outcomes for fetal conditions in the nation.

Why choose the Colorado Fetal Care Center?

For women and families facing a fetal anomaly, the Colorado Fetal Care Center offers every fetal intervention procedure currently available, at one of the few comprehensive maternal and fetal care programs in the world.

This makes the Colorado Fetal Care Center a national referral center for patients with the most complex or high-risk pregnancies.

Our fetal surgery team includes fetal and pediatric surgeons, maternal fetal medicine specialists, fetal and obstetric anesthesiologists, fetal cardiologists, Level III obstetrical nurses and an operating room fetal nursing team. This team has a dedicated facility at Children’s Hospital Colorado, which is equipped with state-of-the-art imaging and fetal surgery resources, and a specifically designed fetal surgery suite.

We offer:

• Fetoscopic surgery
• Open fetal surgery
• EXIT procedures
• Advanced fetal imaging
• Fetal diagnostic techniques
• Ultrasound guided procedures

The maternal fetal care unit located at Children’s Colorado includes:

• 12 labor, delivery, recovery and postpartum rooms fully equipped for maternal and newborn care
• A cesarean section operating suite
• A fetal surgery suite (for open fetal surgery, fetoscopic procedures and EXIT procedures)
• Infant stabilization rooms