Book Review: Fetal Therapy – Scientific Basis and Critical Appraisal of Clinical Benefits
Editors: Mark D. Kilby, Dick Oepkes, and Anthony Johnson Publisher: Cambridge University Press – 453 pages Book Review by: Sonu Chandiram Fetal medicine relates to the practice of diagnosing diseases and disorders in fetuses or unborn children and treating them to mitigate complications and unwelcome outcomes after birth. In 1963, the editors Mark D. Kilby, Dick Oepkes, and Anthony Johnson, point out, William Liley published the first example of direct fetal therapy: an intra-peritoneal blood transfusion for rhesus alloimmunization. This was before ultrasound technology was even introduced. The procedure that Liley performed would have been much safer and effective...
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