The
Maternal-Fetal Medicine Program is a division within the Department
of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the Eastern Virginia Medical School.
The division offers a unique and wide range of expertise and services
in High-Risk Obstetrics (Perinatology):
A Prenatal Diagnosis
and Genetics Program staffed by several board-certified genetic counselors.
The program provides a wide array of services including cancer risk
assessment, counseling for preimplantation genetic diagnosis, chorionic
villus sampling, amniocentesis, percutaneous umbilical cord blood
sampling, DNA and enzyme analysis and umbilical cord stem cell collection.
Specialized
ultrasound
technologies and certified ultrasonographers providing state-of-the-art ultrasound imaging for prenatal diagnosis of fetal malformations
(defects), complex gynecologic pathology and other problems.
A Diabetes
in Pregnancy Program which provides a unique multidisciplinary
approach to the obstetrical and medical care for women with diabetes.
The health care team is comprised of physicians with special training
in caring for high-risk pregnancies, a certified perinatal dietitian
and several certified diabetes educators who are also experienced
perinatal nurses.
Individualized
nutritional counseling by a certified
perinatal dietitian is available when clinically indicated.
An HIV
in Pregnancy Program dedicated to the care of pregnant women who
are HIV positive. Patients referred to the program are eligible to
participate in protocols utilizing the newest therapies for HIV in
the antepartum and intrapartum period.
Antepartum
Fetal Surveillance for high-risk pregnancies is provided at several
fetal diagnostic units. These are located in close proximity to labor
and delivery suites and provide a wide array of surveillance tests
including non-stress tests, contraction stress test and biophysical
profiles.
A
Maternal Transport Program provides the most advanced inpatient
and supportive care to patients who are transported to tertiary care
centers via ambulance or helicopter from the South Eastern Virginia
and North Carolina regions.
The MFM
Perinatal Research Program currently has more than 13 ongoing
prospective clinical trials in a wide variety of clinical areas of
research including perinatal ultrasound, genetics, infectious disease
and diabetes in pregnancy.
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