Obstetrics and Gynecology Webinar Series

Baylor College of Medicine and Texas Children’s Hospital presents the Fetal Medicine Webinar series. These webinars will feature lectures provided by leading international experts in fetal surgery and will focus on some of the most interesting and relevant topics in this field. We invite physicians to participate in this stimulating educational opportunity to increase their knowledge on many different aspects of fetal medicine.

In our most recent webinar, we introduced what may be the next frontier in fetal surgery: prenatal management and treatment of patients diagnosed with complex gastroschisis. We also discussed our innovative Phase 1 trial* for fetoscopic repair of complex gastroschisis.

Our multidisciplinary expert panel:

• Explained the natural history of gastroschisis as well as the rationale and criteria for fetal surgery.
• Reported on our animal experiments proving the feasibility, safety, and efficacy of fetal repair of complex gastroschisis.
• Described how to perform a reliable prenatal diagnosis of complex gastroschisis, a detailed prenatal evaluation, and achieve patient stratification.
• Demonstrated how outcomes from patients diagnosed with gastroschisis may be compromised during their hospital stay and longer term.
• Discussed our clinical trial including the inclusion and exclusion criteria, the challenges of surgically managing these cases safely, and conducting perinatal and postnatal follow-up.

*The Phase 1 trial has been approved by the FDA and our local IRB. It is only offered at the Texas Children’s Fetal Center.

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Have you missed any of the previous webinars? Check out our fetal webinar playlist here! 

In this webinar participants learned about different aspects of patients diagnosed with spina bifida. There was a multidisciplinary approach to describe how to perform a detailed evaluation of the spina bifida in utero using ultrasound and MRI. We also focused on the challenges of surgically managing these cases and how to conduct follow-up. Our panel explained the primary challenges that babies with these conditions face. We also described ways to improve the care of babies with spina bifida including which tests and evaluations are appropriate for this population. Additionally, we discussed a clinical trial that focuses on the benefits of using stem cell therapy for spina bifida fetuses.

In this webinar we covered the management of fetuses diagnosed with open neural tube defects. We had five speakers who discussed different techniques that are available to perform in utero repair of this anomaly and that are being performed in different centers around the world. We also covered the risks and benefits of all techniques, from the most minimally invasive approach to what is currently considered the standard of care. 

In the first webinar we covered some of the most important aspects of complicated monochorionic pregnancies. In the second webinar, we continued covering some of the potential diagnoses that can be reached in the management of complicated monochorionic pregnancies. AWE also discussed important conditions such as TAPS, TRAP sequence, and selective fetal growth restriction (FGR). 

Baylor College of Medicine and Texas Children’s Hospital presented our first virtual Fetal Medicine Webinar series. The first webinar featured lectures provided by leading international experts in Fetal Surgery and focused on Monochorionic Pregnancies.