ABSTRACT
This chapter is an overview of fetal intervention. In reality,
birth defects have a long and interesting history. As Samuel
Taylor Coleridge said, ‘The history of man for the nine
months preceding his birth would be far more interesting and
have events of far greater moment than all three-score and
ten years that follow’. In this chapter, we will present general
principles of fetal surgery, methods of fetal access, diseases
that are amenable to fetal intervention, and a brief discussion
of the future.
