Overview

Midwest Fetal Care Center offers mothers with high-risk pregnancy and babies with abnormal conditions a continuum of care that is among the best in the nation. From evaluation and diagnosis to fetal surgery and follow-up care, our fetal program offers mothers and babies all the experts and technology they will need in one convenient location.

Midwest Fetal Care Center is a collaboration between Children’s Minnesota and Allina Health.

Conditions treated

• Abdominal wall defects
• Chest anomalies
• Congenital diaphragmatic hernia
• Congenital heart defects
• Congenital lung malformations
• Facial/airway conditions
• Fetal tumors
• Gastrointestinal disorders
• Genetic conditions
• Genitourinary problems
• Neurologic disorders
• Spina bifida
• Twin-related conditions

Services offered

• Fetal imaging
• Open-fetal surgery
• Operative fetoscopy
• Fetoscopic laser ablation therapy for twin-to-twin transfusion syndrome (TTTS)
• Fetal transfusions
• Fetal shunts
• EXIT procedure

Related specialties

• Cardiovascular Care
• Genomic Medicine and Genetics
• Neonatology
• Neurosurgery
• Otolaryngology
• Pathology and Laboratory
• Social Work
• Surgery
• The Mother Baby Center