Foetal Medicine Unit at BLK-Max Super Speciality Hospital focuses mainly on using various diagnostic procedures to determine the health of the unborn child. It is involved in the accurate diagnosis, comprehensive management, counselling and prenatal diagnosis of common and rare genetic and non-genetic disorders. The concept of “Foetus as a patient” is new and Fetal Medicine Unit provides its’ patients with complete solutions to foetal diseases. Our team of experienced doctors works closely with Neonatology, Paediatric surgery, Paediatric Cardiology, Paediatric cardiothoracic surgery, Paediatric urology, Paediatric Neurology, Paediatric neurosurgery, and Paediatric otolaryngology to offer integrated prenatal care for patients who receive unexpected foetal screening or ultrasound results.
The dedicated team of doctors at the Foetal Medicine Unit aims at providing world-class care to its patients throughout the pregnancy. They focus on five main issues related to pregnancy
With the reduction in the mortality rates due to infectious diseases that contributes to genetic disorders, there has been increasing awareness among clinicians and they no longer consider these disorders as a rare entity. The advancement in the field of research in genetics throughout the last century has bought plenty of applications in clinical medication into existence. The exponential growth of knowledge of genetics has helped doctors to develop world-class clinical utility. Many of these disorders are now preventable and treatable when diagnosed prenatally.
Services Offered:
Earlier, genetics was only restricted to labs but now this speciality is finding application in clinical practice. Scientific and technologic discoveries are constantly transforming our understanding of genetic disorders and impacting almost every medical specialty. This rapid expansion of knowledge about the genetic basis of disease is bringing powerful new diagnostic and therapeutic capabilities to patient care.
Hereditary diseases are often rare and affected families require specialist advice and services. We offer a full diagnostic, genetic counselling, and genetic testing service to individuals and families affected with all genetic disorders affecting all ages. We help people to find out if they are at particular risk of genetic disorders and provide people with information about genetic disorders so that they can make informed choices about their future. We can offer both urgent and routine consultations as well as a long term follow up service for certain genetic conditions.
Our multidisciplinary services include:
a. Obstetrics, Gynecology and Fetal Medicine
b. Pediatrics
c. Genetics in Adults
d. Cancer Genetics
e. Treatment of genetic disorders
Some of the major conditions we treat include: