IMFH | Maternal-Fetal Services | Physician Services | Urology
IMFH’s medical staff pulls from one of the largest groups of fellowship-trained pediatric urologists in the United States skilled in evaluating, diagnosing, treating and providing follow-up care for babies with congenital and acquired disorders of the genitourinary tract.
One of the most common fetal urinary problems, fetal urinary tract obstruction, is often caused by a narrowing at some point in the urinary tract. This narrowing can slow down or stop the flow of urine, and this in turn can interfere with the development of both the kidneys and the lungs. Fetuses who have an obstruction or abnormality in one kidney and have a normal kidney on the other side will do very well. Severe obstructions to both kidneys prevents urine from getting out into the amniotic space around the fetus and the amniotic fluid goes away (oligohydramnios), causing the fetus’s lungs to not develop. The small lungs may prevent survival after birth. Fetuses with obstruction to both kidneys must be closely followed for changes in amniotic fluid volume, further dilation of the urinary tract, and the sonographic appearance of the kidneys themselves.
At IMFH, our urology specialists provide the highest quality of specialized surgical services for all genitourinary conditions including:
- Hypospadias
- Hydroceles
- Hernias
- Undescended testicles (cryptorchidism)
- Vesicoureteral reflux
- Duplex kidneys
- Ureteropelvic junction obstruction
- Hydronephrosis
In addition we also provide care for more complex disorders requiring extensive surgical reconstruction including intersex, bladder exstrophy, genital reconstruction and complete urinary reconstruction.
