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Chervenak FA, McCullough LB. Ethical issues in recommending and offering fetal therapy. West J Med. 1993;159(3):396-9
Chervenak, F. A., & McCullough, L. B. (1993). Ethical issues in recommending and offering fetal therapy. The Western journal of medicine, 159(3), 396-9.
Chervenak, F A, and McCullough, L B. "Ethical issues in recommending and offering fetal therapy." The Western journal of medicine vol. 159,3 (1993): 396-9.
Chervenak FA, McCullough LB. Ethical issues in recommending and offering fetal therapy. West J Med. 1993 Sep;159(3):396-9. PMID: 8236983; PMCID: PMC1011356.
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West J Med. 1993 Sep;159(3):396-9.

Ethical issues in recommending and offering fetal therapy.

The Western journal of medicine

F A Chervenak, L B McCullough

Affiliations

  1. Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center, New York 10021.

PMID: 8236983 PMCID: PMC1011356

Abstract

Fetal therapy should be offered and recommended for a viable fetus when these criteria are met: invasive therapy is reliably judged to have a high probability of being life-saving or of preventing serious and irreversible disease, injury, or disability for the fetus and for the child it can become; such therapy is reliably judged to involve low mortality risk and low or manageable risk of serious disease, injury, or disability to the viable fetus and the child it can become; and the mortality risk and the risk of disease, injury, or disability to the pregnant women is reliably judged to be low or manageable. When one or more of these criteria are not satisfied, intervention is experimental and can only be offered, not recommended, on the basis of benefit to future patients and the autonomy of the pregnant woman.

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