Fetal Diagnosis and Treatment Group

The Montreal Children’s Hospital Fetal Diagnosis and Treatment Group (FDTG) includes specialists from different departments at the hospital who work as a team to provide prenatal diagnosis and treatment of fetal abnormalities.

Services

We provide various services, including detailed fetal ultrasounds (2D and 3D), fetal MRI, amniocentesis, fetal blood sampling, and transfusion, as well as more complex fetal interventions such as fetoscopy, placements of fetal bladder and thoracic shunts, ablative procedures, and EXIT procedure (Ex-utero Intrapartum Treatment).

The McGill Fetal Diagnosis and Treatment Group (FDTG) is a collaborative team of experts from various medical and surgical specialties who strive to provide outstanding, comprehensive and well-coordinated care for complex fetal pathologies, in order to address the needs of both the pregnant mother and baby, before, during and after delivery.

Also available are counseling in fetal surgical interventions and genetic counseling, including determining the risk of associated anomalies, and risk of recurrence.

The FDTG helps coordinate consultations with specialists and appointments for imaging. Neonatal counseling and perinatal management are also provided for patients.

Referrals

Referrals to the MUHC Maternal Fetal Medicine Clinic can be sent via email or fax using the online form.

Team

While formalized in 2000, the McGill Fetal Diagnostic and Treatment Group had been in the works since the 1980s by the vision and dedication of members of the Pediatric Surgery, Neonatology, Genetics and Maternal Fetal Medicine departments. This now well established multidisciplinary team works together to provide families with the best care available for diagnosis and treatment of fetal abnormalities. Our team comprises staff from Pediatrics, Perinatology, Neonatology, Genetics, Radiology and Pathology. 

Maternal Fetal Medicine/ Obstetrics

Medical Genetics

Neonatology

Pediatric Cardiology

Pediatric Radiology

Pediatric Surgery

Collaboration

The team holds weekly joint meetings by videoconference in order to review diagnoses and discuss care plans. Representatives from each specialty, as well as representatives of participating institutions, such as the McGill University Health Centre, Jewish General Hospital and St. Mary’s Hospital, offer their expertise.