A study by researchers at UTHealth Houston concludes that fetoscopic ablation is an alternative treatment for select cases of vasa previa. The findings were published in Ultrasound in Obstetrics & ...

Tampa, FL (Dec. 18, 2007) -- A University of South Florida fetal surgeon at Tampa General Hospital successfully treated in utero a rare but potentially devastating condition in which placental blood ...

Ruptured vasa previa is rare but usually catastrophic if delivery is not imminent. We present a case of ruptured vasa previa in velamentous cord insertion placenta. The fetus survived despite 6 h of a ...

About 27 weeks into her pregnancy, Marisa Resendez had a decision to make. She’d been diagnosed with vasa previa, the dangerous placement of fetal blood vessels near the cervix. “If my water broke or ...

Vasa previa is a rare condition in which the fetal umbilical cord blood vessels run close to the external orifice of the uterus. There is a danger of the vessels rupturing when the baby moves into the ...

The mother of a baby who died just six hours after being born had a condition which affects just one in every 6,000 pregnancies and can lead to fatal blood loss in the baby, an inquest has heard.

The deaths of up to 25 babies a year could be prevented through the introduction of routine screening of pregnant women for a rare complication in pregnancy called vasa previa, Minister for Health ...

A fetal surgeon successfully treated in utero a rare but potentially devastating prenatal condition, which, if undetected, is frequently deadly for newborns. A University of South Florida fetal ...