Surgical correction of congenital malformations of the fetus and newborn

Over the past decade, the problem of congenital malformations has acquired great medical and social significance. The urgency of the problem and the priority of the development of this direction has increased in connection with the introduction into practice of methods of prenatal diagnostics, which created the basis for the active prevention of the birth of children with multiple developmental anomalies or their timely surgical correction. The significance and state of this problem is evidenced by statistics. According to the National American Center for Birth Defects, 10 to 20 million babies with congenital anomalies are born annually in the world.