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MEET OUR PATIENTS
Just the thought of a health risk to your
unborn child can be devastating. At Texas Children's Fetal Center,
our dedicated team of experts supports parents every step of the
way, offering knowledge, compassion – and above all – hope.
Read the inspirational stories of our
patients and families:
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Texas Children’s Fetal
Center hosted its first-ever Family Reunion on Sept. 8. The
festivities reunited patients and their families with Texas
Children’s physicians, surgeons and staff who cared for them. The
gathering provided guests with a chance to visit with old friends –
and the opportunity to make new ones. (more)
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diagnosed before birth,
enormous rare chest mass
Ellen knows the experts might tell
her she is holding her newborn son, Garrett,
too long and too often. But then again, the
experts have no idea how lucky she feels to
be able to hold him at all.
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diagnosed in second
trimester,
Twin-Twin Transfusion Syndrome
A
pregnant Roberta, her husband Walter and their
8-year-old son were joyously planning for twins when they
got the news every expectant
family dreads hearing: There’s a life-threatening problem. A perinatologist informed her she had twin-twin transfusion
syndrome (TTTS), a disease of the placenta that affects
identical twin pregnancies. She was then referred to Texas
Children’s Fetal Center.
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diagnosed before birth,
lymphatic malformation or giant neck massLittle Lauren has been extraordinary
from the time she was born. Diagnosed with lymphatic malformation —
more commonly known as a giant neck mass — even before she was born,
Lauren’s birth and subsequent growth is a story of medical
innovation carried out by surgeons and their support staff at the
Texas Children's Fetal Center.
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diagnosed
before birth,
congenital cystic adenomatoid malformation (CCAM)Young Garrett, about to celebrate his first birthday, overcame life-threatening challenges even before his birth. At 22 weeks into his mother Jan's pregnancy with Garrett, the pair underwent a rare, delicate open-fetal operation at Texas Children's Fetal Center.
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diagnosed before birth,
hernia of the diaphragm
Michelle and Tim are trained to look for the absolutes – he
is an engineer, she a former math teacher – but when their
daughter was diagnosed with a severe
congenital
diaphragmatic hernia, they were faced with uncertainty.
Their perseverance and search for answers on the Internet
brought them to the Texas Children's Fetal Center, where
their baby had lifesaving surgery soon after birth.
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