Fetal Medicine: From Basic Science to Prenatal Diagnosis and Therapy
A special issue of Diagnostics (ISSN 2075-4418). This special issue belongs to the section "Medical Imaging and Theranostics".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 August 2024 | Viewed by 11550
Special Issue Editors
Interests: prenatal diagnosis; ultrasound; thalassemia
Interests: prenatal diagnosis; obstetric ultrasound
Interests: prenatal diagnosis
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Dear Colleagues,
The field of fetal medicine has evolved rapidly. There have been many novel developments in experimental studies of abnormal morphogenesis, pathological and molecular cell biology analyses of human malformations, as well as new technologies for screening, diagnosis, and fetal therapy. The potential challenges and opportunities arising from innovative fetal diagnostic techniques and therapies increasingly require ethical nuance in decision making and counseling, particularly in light of the uncertainties associated with risk and phenotypic variation, and in the lens through which disability and disability issues are viewed.
This Special Issue aims to provide a comprehensive picture of this research area by bringing together contributions covering all areas of cutting-edge of fetal medicine: from basic science, to prenatal diagnosis and therapy. Contributions may relate to, but are not limited to, fetal development and its relation to malformations, etiology and pathogenetic mechanism study on congenital malformations, non-invasive prenatal diagnosis and screening, current controversies in prenatal diagnosis, new ultrasound technologies, fetal therapy, genetic counseling, as well as the psychosocial and ethical aspects of prenatal diagnosis and treatment.
Prof. Dr. Min Chen
Dr. Kwok-yin Leung
Dr. Kelvin Y. K. Chan
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- prenatal diagnosis
- prenatal screening
- fetal abnormality
- next-generation sequencing
- fetal therapy
- fetal imaging
- noninvasive prenatal testing
- genetic counselling
- interpretation of genetic tests
- ethical, legal and psychosocial aspects
- health professional training on fetal medicine
- etiology
- pathogenetic mechanism
- congenital malformations
- molecular mechanisms
- pathological and molecular cell biology
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