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Fetal Cardiac Interventions

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This chapter discusses the ethical issues surrounding fetal diagnoses and their in-utero management, two subjects that are becoming increasingly commonplace in pediatric cardiac care centers. Specifically, the problematic notion of having a diagnosis with an unclear natural history in utero that may lead to critical illness postnatally and that may warrant fetal intervention to prevent such postnatal illness is discussed within the framework of medical ethics, clinical reviews and postmodern philosophy.

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  1. Department of Surgery, University of Pennsylvania, School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, USA

    Constantine D. Mavroudis

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  1. Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, St. Petersburg, FL, USA

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  2. Rollins College, Winter Park, FL, USA

    J. Thomas Cook

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    Constantine D. Mavroudis

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Mavroudis, C.D. (2020). Fetal Cardiac Interventions. In: Mavroudis, C., Cook, J., Mavroudis, C. (eds) Bioethical Controversies in Pediatric Cardiology and Cardiac Surgery. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-35660-6_11

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