title: [Anesthesia for fetal therapy on the eve of 21st century--possibilities, hazards and perspectives].
abstract: Fetal therapy is a new branch of medicine, developing quickly now, that deals with diseases and congenital anomalies diagnosing and therapy in an unborn child--in utero. Nowadays, fetus has become a fully-privileged patient for medical and surgical therapies. The aim of the review is to present the possibilities of anesthesia for fetal therapy now at hand, to delineate general tendencies of further development and to highlight dangers and controversies. Fetal therapy is a fascinating and dynamically developing field of medicine which has practically gone beyond the limits of a medical experiment. Methods utilised are accepted, although still raise numerous controversies of medical and ethical nature. However, progress in perinatology, medical technique and pharmacology and in study on human genome raise optimism and allow to believe that in close future fetal therapy will be broadly accepted as a routine therapeutic method.
authors.affiliation: Akademia Medyczna we Wrocławiu, Katedra i Klinika Anestezjologii i Intensywnej Terapii. asklepios_xl@wp.pl
authors.forename: Ewa
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Syweńki
authors.forename: Małgorzata
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Gediga-Lipinska
mesh_terms: D000758:Anesthesia; D005315:Fetal Diseases / Q000628:therapy*; D046128:Fetal Therapies; D006801:Humans