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Our research at the Colorado Fetal Care Center is driven by our belief that all children, including those not yet born, deserve the best chance at a brighter future. Our research, which often includes collaboration with national and international multicenter trials, ensures we’re helping advance the standard of care for maternal fetal medicine and pushing to develop new therapies.
What our maternal fetal medicine research means for babies and expecting parents
Everything we do in research aims to achieve two goals: improve short- and long-term outcomes for babies with serious fetal conditions and reduce complications of fetal care and labor and delivery for parents. Research helps us bring the latest, safest and most effective treatments and care practices to our patients. It also helps us discover new treatment options that give families a completely new outlook that might not have been possible just a few years earlier.
As a research institution, we’re able to bring these advancements to our patients before they become widely available elsewhere.
“Our vision is to cultivate a robust research portfolio that drives innovation in fetal therapy, advancing both scientific discovery and clinical care. By fostering collaboration, pushing the boundaries of technology and translating research into tangible outcomes, we aim to move the field forward — offering hope, improving outcomes and shaping the future of fetal therapy.”
- MICHAEL ZARETSKY, MD
Maternal fetal medicine advancements at the Colorado Fetal Care Center
Our fetal care experts collaborate with specialists around the world to help discover and share the latest innovations in maternal fetal medicine. We participate in the highest-level clinical trials, develop standards of care and perform first-of-their-kind treatments.
We’re one of a handful of fetal care centers in North America participating in the Mayo Clinic’s hypoplastic left heart syndrome consortium to expand access to groundbreaking clinical trials. Our team of fetal care experts were the first to perform an ex utero intrapartum treatment (EXIT) to pacemaker procedure for fetal heart block. We’re involved in more than 50 active research studies and help set the standard of care for twin-twin transfusion syndrome (TTTS), selective fetal growth restriction (sFGR), myelomeningocele (MMC) and many other fetal conditions.
Our experts are pushing the limits of technology to advance fetal cardiology imaging by using an MRI-compatible Doppler ultrasound device and 4D flow with fetal cardiac MRI. This allows us to better analyze the function of the fetal heart, get more accurate diagnoses and create more targeted care plans.
Our program is not only centered on babies, but integrated, thoughtful support for our pregnant patients, demonstrating our true commitment to being leaders of comprehensive care. Our mental health support team is backed by the latest research on antepartum and postpartum support and therapies, along with medication management.
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