The Philadelphia Conference on prenatal diagnosis and fetal echocardiography

Abstract

The Second Philadelphia Conference on Prenatal Diagnosis Update was held on 4 June 2010. This meeting had a larger registration than expected and was larger than the year before, with over 300 attending, including physicians, genetic counselors, nurses, midwives, sonographers and other healthcare professionals. The presentations of the meeting encompassed topics in the field of prenatal diagnosis, the current standards of prenatal diagnosis practice, innovations and new discoveries in the field, and their future implications for clinical practice. We also focused on the role of ultrasound in prenatal diagnosis, and had a full-day course on fetal echocardiography. During the conference, we had sessions that were dedicated to genetic disorders that could be diagnosed prenatally (22q11.2 deletion), in addition to genetic disorders that have an impact on the pregnant mother and her fetus (e.g., thrombophilia). As in our previous conference, we had a reproductive endocrine lecture. This year topics included IV...