Fetal Therapy Updates

Module 1

Dr. N. Scott Adzick outlines the “MOMS2: Follow up of the Management Of Myelomeningocele Study.” Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) co-led the landmark Management of Myelomeningocele Study (MOMS), which compared outcomes after prenatal and postnatal repair of myelomeningocele. In a follow-up study 10 years later published in Pediatrics, new findings show significant physical and emotional benefits in school-age children who received corrective surgery in the womb for MMC.

Module 2
Dr. Natalie E. Rintoul presents on pulmonary hypertension in babies with congenital diaphragmatic hernia (CDH). This talk, originally presented at the ELSO meeting in 2020, reviews the importance of treatment for pulmonary hypertension in the neonate and the options for disease management.