Abstract
The advances in prenatal diagnosis have allowed understand with better precision the fetal physiopathology and recognize the diseases that are life-threatening. Most prenatally diagnosed anatomic abnormalities are best treated after birth, but a small number of malformations than can cause fetal demise or devastating consequence postnatally, may be corrected before birth. The concept of fetal surgery was conceived in order to prevent fetal or early postnatal death, or to prevent irreversible organ damage. Because most of these surgical procedures involve some risk to the fetus and the mother, the surgery must be safe and effective. This requires knowing information about the physiopathology and natural history of the disease, the efficacy of the surgical intervention to ameliorating the disease and the safety of the planned intervention, all this primarily tested on animal model. The purpose of this article is to describe the current status of fetal surgery, with focus on the most commonly congenital anomalies treated by open fetal surgery.Los contenidos publicados en esta revista están protegidos bajo una Licencia Creative Commons Atribución 4.0 Internacional (CC BY 4.0). Esto significa que cualquier persona es libre de compartir, usar y construir a partir de este artículo, incluso con fines comerciales, siempre que se otorgue el crédito apropiado al autor original, se proporcione un enlace a la licencia, se indique el nombre y edición de la Revista.
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