Modern fetal surgery-a historical review of the happenings that shaped modern fetal surgery and its practices.

ABSTRACT: The history of fetal surgery is one of constant evolution. Over the last 50 years, fetal surgery has progressed from a mere idea to an internationally respected innovative field of surgery. This article aims to provide a historical review of how the enterprise of maternal-fetal surgery came to be its modern version. This review is less focused on the history of specific therapies for a relatively small number of conditions, and more on how the whole field of maternal-fetal surgery evolved. The various internal and external influences that steered the field's evolution are discussed in chronologic order. Since the start of modern fetal surgery in the 1980s, large paradigm shifts have characterized the growth of the field as a whole. Innovative interventions are now based on physiologic mani

SUBMITTER: Evans LL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8192985 | biostudies-literature | 2021 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature