Advances in Fetal Medicine Course

Saturday 2 December 2023

08:00 - 09:00 Registration

09:00 - 09:10 Welcome (Kypros Nicolaides)

09:10 - 13:05 Genomics in pregnancy

09:10 - 09:20 Introduction (Antonio de Marvao - UK)
09:20 - 09:35 Overview of genetic testing (Tessa Homfray - UK)
Cell free DNA testing of maternal blood
09:35 - 10:35
(Aris Papageorghiou, Pranav Pandya, Jehan Karim, Fionnuala Mone, Surabhi Nanda - UK )
10:35 - 11:00 Fetal genetic testing: from head to toe (Tessa Homfray - UK)

11:00 - 11:30 Coffee Break

11:30 - 11:50 AI assisted non-invasive fetal whole genome sequencing (Noam Shomron - Israel)
11:50 - 12:05 Common genetic variants and polygenic risk scores (Antonio de Marvao - UK)
Inherited cardiac conditions
12:05 - 12:20 Fetal, neonatal and maternal inherited arrhythmia (Jan Till - UK)
12:20 - 12:35 Fetal and neonatal aortopathies and cardiomyopathies (Julene Carvalho - UK)
12:35 - 12:50 Genetics of fetal cardiomyopathies and congenital heart disease (Tessa Homfray - UK)
12:50 - 13:05 Maternal inherited cardiac conditions: antenatal care and delivery (Antonio de Marvao - UK)

13:05 - 14:10 Lunch Break

14:10 - 14:40 Fetal cardiac defects - presentation of cases (Julene Carvalho - UK)

14:40 - 16:00 Preterm birth

14:40 - 15:00 The role of the microbiome (Phillip Bennett - UK)
15:00 - 15:15 Universal measurement of cervical length at 20 weeks (Caroline Fox - UK)
15:15 - 15:30 Cervical pessary for short cervix (Eva Pajkrt - Netherlands)
15:30 - 16:00 Discussion

16:00 - 16:20 Congenital infection update (Yves Ville - France)

16:20 - 16:50 Coffee Break

16:50 - 18:00 Fetal growth restriction

16:50 - 17:05 Treating fetal growth restriction (Anna David - UK)
17:05 - 17:20 Prediction (Ioannis Papastefanou - Greece)
17:20 - 18:00 Discussion on management (Christoph Lees, Raffaele Napolitano - UK)
 Advances in Fetal Medicine Course

Sunday 3 December 2023

09:00 - 10:30 Preeclampsia

09:00 - 10:00 Prediction and prevention (Kypros Nicolaides, David Wright – UK, Liona Poon - Hong Kong)
10:00 - 10:10 Demonstration of new FMF software (Petya Chaveeva - Bulgaria)
10:10 - 10:30 Postnatal management (Basky Thilaganathan - UK)

10:30 - 13:00 Neurosonography

10:30 - 11:00 Normal and abnormal cortical development (Ritsuko Pooh - Japan)

11:00 - 11:30 Coffee Break

11:30 - 12:00 Added value of sagittal views in fetal brain anomalies (Guillermo Azumendi - Spain)
12:00 - 12:20 The role of MRI in assessment of the fetal brain (Elisenda Eixarch - Spain)
12:20 - 13:00 Accurate parental counselling at the fetal neurology clinic (Tally Lerman-Sagie - Israel)

13:00 - 14:00 Lunch Break

14:00 - 14:20 Fetal CT in the prenatal evaluation of skeletal dysplasias (Muriel Holder - UK)
14:20 - 14:40 Fetal sex abnormalities (Marisa Borenstein - Spain)

14:40 - 15:40 Fetal therapy

14:40 - 14:55 Overview (Kypros Nicolaides - UK)
14:55 - 15:10 Lung lesions (Rogelio Cruz-Martinez - Mexico)
15:10 - 15:40 Obstructive uropathy (Nicola Persico - Italy, Christoph Berg - Germany)

15:40 - 17:00 Demonstration of intrauterine interventions (Mauricio Herrera - Colombia)