How Nationwide Children’s is Optimizing Prenatal and Neonatal Care for Infants with Treatable Rare Diseases

How Nationwide Children’s is Optimizing Prenatal and Neonatal Care for Infants with Treatable Rare Diseases

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Now that there is ever-growing potential to intervene medically before a child is born, it expands the utility of prenatal testing. Doctors can find ways to intervene earlier to improve outcomes.

Ella’s life is saved after surgery for sacrococcygeal teratoma, a rare fetal tumor, at the Colorado Fetal Care Center

Ella’s life is saved after surgery for sacrococcygeal teratoma, a rare fetal tumor, at the Colorado Fetal Care Center

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Four years later, Ella is a thriving preschooler and big sister, thanks to Colorado Fetal Care Center. The Center is the only facility in the Rocky Mountain region to offer the complex procedure she underwent to remove a sacrococcygeal teratoma that was twice Ella’s size.