The Genetics and 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 Genetics and Foetal 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 Genetic and 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.
Earlier, genetics was only restricted to labs but now this speciality is finding application in clinical practice. Management of genetic disorders is still mainly palliatives or out of reach of common people. However, the only way to prevent a wide range of these genetic disorders is through Genetic counselling & prenatal diagnosis.
Services offered - Clinical Genetics and Foetal Medicine
Genetic counselling services by a highly trained medical geneticist for
Some of the major conditions we treat include: