Women who seek consultation or care from maternal-fetal medicine specialists include:
- Patients undergoing diagnostic or therapeutic procedures during pregnancy, such as comprehensive ultrasound, genetic amniocentesis, fetal surgery or treatment.
- Women with medical or surgical disorders such as heart disease, high blood pressure, kidney or gastrointestinal disease, diabetes or infectious diseases.
- Healthy women whose pregnancy has increased risk for adverse outcomes such as abnormal alpha fetoprotein (AFP) blood test, multiple births, recurrent preterm labor and delivery, recurrent pregnancy loss or suspected fetal growth restriction.