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F A M O U S
by Dornan
Fetal and Maternal Obstetrics Ultrasound Services
The Maternal Fetal Medicine (MFM) unit at Al Zahra Hospital Dubai is here to cater to all your needs advanced maternal and fetal medicine needs throughout your entire pregnancy.
It involves the treatment of mothers and their fetuses before, during, and immediately after delivery. Among other things, consultant MFM’s provide prenatal care, treat patients, and perform surgeries. Both low and high-risk pregnancies can be handled by an MFM Consultant.
Fetal Medicine experts are specifically trained in looking after the mother and fetus throughout the pregnancy to ensure the utmost safety and best possible results. Additionally, advanced scans, investigations, and genetic tests, as well as low-risk antenatal care, are also a part of Fetal Medicine care.
F.A.M.O.U.S by Dornan stands for Fetal and Maternal Obstetrics Ultrasound Services. It is a unit that looks at fetal medicine and provides highly specialized care for both the mother and her baby especially in high-risk pregnancies.
Women at high risk of developing problems during pregnancy are treated by a multidisciplinary team of highly skilled professionals. We encourage you to see one of our specialists even if you initially think your pregnancy, is low risk.
Dr. Dornan is in charge of numerous unique programs including F.A.M.O.U.S, in which she looks after any possible complications in both low and high-risk pregnancies. These complications include twins and higher multiples, placental abnormalities, fetal anomalies, genetic disorders, nutritional issues and infectious diseases. Professor Dornan puts a focus on the diagnosis and treatment of expectant mothers and their unborn babies.
During the combines testing during the first trimester, the scanning and testing aim to calculate the risk of having a baby with chromosomal abnormalities. Each woman will be given an estimate of her individual risk for this pregnancy. This is calculated by taking into account the age of the mother, measurement of two proteins in the mother’s blood and the scan findings of nuchal translucency thickness, nasal bone, blood flow through the fetal heart and fetal liver and the presence or absence of any fetal abnormalities. Parents will receive counselling upon receiving of results and risk factors.
Usually carried out before 18 weeks of pregnancy, this ultrasound scan checks for significant abnormalities in the baby
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