No one in San Diego offers more advanced treatment options for high-risk pregnancy than UCSD Medical Center.
Nothing could have prepared mother-to-be Tanya Steinman
for this: her babies had Twin-to-Twin Transfusion Syndrome,
a rare condition in fetuses that share a placenta.
Left untreated, it could be fatal for both.
The question was, how should they treat it? Tanya’s doctor
recommended a perinatologist at UCSD Medical Center,
who was doing a new fetal surgery called laser
photocoagulation. Put simply, by correcting the babies’
shared blood flow, he would give both the best chance
to survive. Despite the risks, Tanya and her husband
agreed to try it. 16 weeks later, the healthy cries of
sisters Julia and Audrey confirmed the power
of academic medicine.