Proceedings of the First Annual Meeting of the International Fetoscopic Myelomeningocele Repair Consortium

M. SANZ CORTES1 , D. A. LAPA2 , G. L. ACACIO3, M. BELFORT1,4 , E. CARRERAS5 , N. MAIZ5 , J. L. PEIRO6 , F. Y. LIM6, J. MILLER7 , A. BASCHAT7 , G. SEPULVEDA8, I. DAVILA8, Y. GIELCHINSKY9,10, M. BENIFLA11 , J. STIRNEMANN12, Y. VILLE12 , M. YAMAMOTO13 , H. FIGUEROA13 , L. SIMPSON14 and K. H. NICOLAIDES15 1Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Baylor College of Medicine, Texas Children’s Hospital, Houston, TX, USA; 2Fetal Therapy Program, Hospital Israelita Albert Einstein, São Paulo, Brazil; 3Department of Obstetrics, Universidade de Taubate, São Paulo, Brazil; 4Department of Neurosurgery, Baylor College of Medicine, Texas Children’s Hospital, Houston, TX, USA; 5Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Hospital Universitari Vall d’Hebron, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain; 6Department of Pediatric Surgery, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center (CCHMC), Cincinnati, OH, USA; 7Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, Johns Hopkins Center for Fetal Therapy, Baltimore, MD, USA; 8Medicine Perinatal Alta Especialidad, Hospital Christus Muguerza Alta Especialidad, Monterrey, NL, Mexico; 9Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology, Hadassah-Hebrew University Medical Center, Jerusalem, Israel; 10Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology, Rabin Medical Center, Petach Tikva, Israel; 11Pediatric Neurosurgery Unit, Rambam Health Care Campus, Haifa, Israel; 12Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Necker-Enfants Malades Hospital, Paris, France; 13Universidad Los Andes, Santiago de Chile, Chile; 14Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Columbia University Medical Center, New York Presbyterian Hospital, New York City, NY, USA; 15Fetal Medicine Foundation, London, UK

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