Indie and Scottie: Complex Fetal Surgery at the Colorado Fetal Care Center

At her 20-week ultrasound, Tara’s doctor said her twins looked perfect. At the next checkup, everything changed. Her doctor diagnosed Indie and Scottie with twin-twin transfusion syndrome (TTTS), a life-threatening condition created by abnormal blood vessel connections in identical twins that creates imbalanced blood flow and circulation.
A couple days later, Tara and Cody were at our Colorado Fetal Care Center to meet our experts and develop a care plan. Two days after that, Tara had her first fetal surgery to correct the TTTS.
“It was a whirlwind of four days,” says Cody, Indie and Scottie’s dad.
Laser ablation surgery is only used for severe cases of TTTS. Tara needed a second laser ablation surgery because their TTTS was especially severe. But our maternal fetal medicine experts and fetal surgeons have a wealth of experience treating complex conditions like this, so they were prepared for the unexpected.
“Wherever we were in this journey,” says Tara, “everybody there made me feel good. There wasn’t one moment where I felt like I was in the wrong place.”
Tara felt reassured because we have one of the most skilled and experienced fetal care teams in the country and TTTS is just one of the many fetal conditions for which we perform complex fetal surgery. Whether your baby needs laser ablation like Indie and Scottie, open fetal surgery or a different fetal surgery, we have the expertise to help your family.
Watch this video to see how Scottie and Indie are doing today and to learn more about our fetal surgery capabilities.
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