Establishing a fetal medicine centre with a comprehensive perinatal pathology and Genetics lab
Dr Suresh and Dr Indrani Suresh were the first to provide fetal medicine services since 1987 in the
country.Their passion for providing care to the unborn child and the constant endeavour to ensure high
quality work and provide state of the art diagnostics has ensured that their institution has been in the
forefront of providing and developing all aspects of this speciality.
Establishing a fetal medicine centre with a comprehensive perinatal pathology and
Genetics lab
The need for supportive services to aid diagnosis and fetal therapy and to provide counselling services lead
to the establishment of a perinatal pathology unit, a high quality genetic lab and a department of
dysmorphology and clinical genetics. The institution also has a clinical epidemiology unit.
Prenatal Diagnosis
Addresses genetic disorders and structural malformations by analysing samples from
the fetus in the womb
Fetal Therapy
Intrauterine treatment procedures like intrauterine transfusion, fetal shunting, embolization and
medical fetal therapy
The diagnosis of congenital malformations has been one of the major areas of interest and research of
The Mediscan Prenatal Diagnosis & fetal therapy Centre with highly skilled personnel involved in
prenatal diagnosis. Over the last decade, over 4000 diagnostic and therapeutic procedures have been
performed successfully.Antenatal diagnostic techniques like chorionic villus sampling, amniocentesis and
fetal blood sampling are routinely done as outpatient procedures.
Over the years this institution has become a tertiary referral centre not just from all over the country but
from the South Asian region both for antenatal diagnosis and fetal therapy. Over 12,000 fetal procedures
have been done and many of them are done free of cost. The first intrauterine transfusion for Rh
isoimmunisation was done in 1991 at MediScan systems. Since then about 283 transfusions have been done.
About 60% of these are done free of cost.The first successful thoraco-amniotic shunt in India was performed
in 1995 and the first arterial embolisation of an acardiac twin was done in 1993 at MediScan and both babies
are growing into fine citizens today. Other first time fetal interventional procedures such as vescicoamniotic shunt and bipolar cautery for TTTS have been performed. Other fetal procedures like selective
ablation of an abnormal twin and multifetal reduction have helped many mothers realise their dream of
having a normal child.
