Emory Perinatal Center
Dedicated to treating women with high risk pregnancies to provide a healthy life for mothers and babies.The services of the Maternal-Fetal Medicine division are specifically designed to treat complicated and high risk pregnancies. Many moms-to-be may fall into this category, though the term "high risk" is not necessarily a cause for alarm. It merely means that because of your medical history (such as diabetes, heart disease, high blood pressure), difficulties in a prior pregnancy, or a pregnancy with more than one baby, you will need to be monitored more closely to ensure the health of you and your baby. Complications for the fetus, including intrauterine growth failure, fetal abnormalities, genetic problems or congenital malformations can also be addressed.
Established more than 25 years ago, the Maternal-Fetal Medicine division was one of the first specialty units in the country. Today it is part of the state-of-the-art Emory Regional Perinatal Center, the largest of only six regional high-risk infant care centers in the south.
Because many maternal-fetal conditions are unusual, even well trained specialists may fail to encounter enough cases to be familiar with the latest treatments. The Maternal-Fetal Medicine team is highly trained in the diagnosis and treatment of these conditions. The team manages the patient's care in collaboration with the primary care obstetric team, offering information about the most current approaches and techniques to diagnose and treat complicated pregnancies.
Services
The Maternal-Fetal Medicine division provides services at Emory University Hospital Midtown. These services include:
- State-of-the-art ultrasound equipment, including G.E. Voluson 4D ultrasound machines.
- Management of pregnancy complicated by diabetes.
- First and second trimester diagnosis of fetal chromosomal problems, including CVS and amniocentesis.
- Management of multiple pregnancies, e.g. twins and pregnancies in older women.
- Genetic consultation — the work of the division is well integrated with Emory pediatric geneticists who assist in prenatal diagnosis. During the past five years, diagnosis of genetically linked problems has become much more common and sophisticated. These new findings have led to increasingly more effective prenatal interventions, such as utero surgery (performed on the fetus of a pregnant woman).
- Neonatal Intensive Care (NICU) for high-risk newborns — one of only six in the region. The Emory Clinic, Emory University Hospital Midtown — located in midtown Atlanta
Location
Our Maternal Fetal Medicine office is located on the ninth floor of the Emory University Hospital Midtown Medical Office Tower, 550 Peachtree Street, across from our general OB-GYN office. The Maternal-Fetal Medicine team is also based out of the Maternity Center at Emory University Hospital Midtown, which includes an outstanding newborn nursery. We opened the first neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) in the Southeast in 1981, and currently, we serve as the Emory Regional Perinatal Center, one of six centers in the south designated to care for high-risk infants.
