18th Asia Pacific Congress in Maternal Fetal Medicine 2025

1 – 2 November 2025  Osaka, Japan

Day 1 – Saturday, 1 November 2025

Keynote Sessions:

  • 36 weeks scan

Parallel Session 1A: Hypertensive disorders in pregnancy

  • Hypertensive disorders in pregnancy
  • Hypertensive disorders of pregnancy and statin: what’s new?
  • Latest insights into aspirin prevention
  • What is superimposed preeclampsia?
  • Dynamic transcriptome landscape of human chorionic villi in preeclampsia

Parallel Session 1B: Genetics in Pregnancy

  • Advances in prenatal testing and diagnosis
  • Prof Ritsuko Pooh – Don’t we need Cytogenetics? Pitfalls in Molecular genetics
  • Beyond the Test Results: Navigating the Complexities of Genetic Counseling
  • Rare Genetic Diseases Unveiled: Latest Breakthroughs and Discoveries
  • Proactive Parenthood: The Carrier Screening Advantage

Parallel Session 2A: Pregnancy in women with cardiovascular diseases

  • Preconception care for women with cardiovascular diseases
  • Latest advances on peripartum cardiomyopathy
  • Maternal hemodynamics during labor
  • Management of pregnant women with adult congenital heart disease
  • Cardio-Obstetrics clinic: important lessons for obstetrician

Parallel Session 2B: Cutting-edge in Management of Genetic Conditions

  • Fetal genetic testing: from head to toe
  • Latest advances in future fetal therapy for Down’s syndrome
  • Latest advances of pre-implantation genetic tests
  • Prof Ritsuko Pooh – Beyond protocol: Tailoring genetic testing strategies to unique clinical cases
  • Prenatal cell-free DNA screening for genetic conditions of heterogenous etiologies

Parallel Session 3A: Fetal neurosonography

  • Mastering the View: Practical Tips for Optimal Planes in TV-NSG
  • Fetal infection and neurosonography
  • Ventriculomegaly: Beyond Atrial Width in the Era of Advanced Imaging
  • A step-by-step approach in evaluating midline anomalies
  • Fetal NSG Pattern Recognition and Prenatal genetic diagnostic approach

Parallel Session 3B: Safe labor and delivery

  • Role of ultrasound on the labor ward
  • Prof Piya Chaemsaithong – Tools for diagnosing true labor
  • New algorithm for management of shoulder dystocia or Postmortum hemorrhage
  • Feasibility of sonopartogram: are we there yet?
  • Evidence based induction of labor
  • Uterine rupture impact on mother and newborn

Parallel Session 4A: Fetal echocardiography

  • Prenatal genetic diagnostic approach to congenital heart disease
  • Diagnostic pitfalls for each disease
  • Fetal Heart failure, diagnostic definition
  • Fetal heart evaluation in twin pregnancy
  • New insight of Ebstein’s disease
  • Fetal therapy for aortic stenosis

Parallel Session 4B: Catastrophe in obstetrics: PAS, PPH, Vasaprevia

  • Screening for placenta accreta
  • Cesarean scar pregnancy
  • How to manage undiagnosed PAS: a nightmare for obstetricians
  • PPH, recent strategy of management
  • Vasa previa, diagnosis and management
  • Overview and management for amniotic fluid embolism”

Day 2 – Sunday, 2 November 2025

Keynote Sessions:

  • Great Obstetrical Syndrome: the child is the father of the man

Parallel Session 5A: Preterm delivery

  • Intraamniotic infection as a cause of preterm birth
  • Prediction and prevention of preterm birth
  • Use of tocolytics and antibiotics in threatened preterm labor
  • Amniotic fluid sludge: diagnosis and clinical implication
  • Vaginal colonization: should we treat or not
  • Significance of steroid administration for late preterm labor
  • Possibility of molecular targeted therapy for preterm labor

Parallel Session 5B: Ultrasound in the 1st trimester of pregnancy

  • 11-14 weeks ultrasound screening: ISUOG guidelines
  • Tips you should know in 8-13 weeks’ anomaly scan
  • Implementation of 11-14 weeks scan clinic
  • Fetal heart in the first trimester: what you should not miss
  • Cell-free DNA testing in multiples: where are we?
  • Prof Ritsuko Pooh – Navigating prenatal genetic testing choices by ultrasound findings
  • First trimester challenge: Early recognition of placenta previa and vasa previa

Parallel Session 6A: Maternal complications and management

  • Management of Maternal Cerebral Vascular complications
  • FIGO Guidelines on Cancer and Pregnancy
  • Pregnancy Carrying Cancer, management strategy
  • ECMO in obstetrics: an obstetrician point of view

Parallel Session 6B: Multiple pregnancy

  • Delay interval delivery in pre- and prei-viable multiple pregnancy
  • TRAP: Current updates and controversies
  • TTTS: Intervention
  • Selective FGR: fetal monitoring and intervention
  • Discordant anomaly in monochorionic twins

Parallel Session 7A: Fetal growth restriction

  • Prediction and prevention of SGA/FGR
  • Genetic considerations in FGR
  • Severe FGR, prognosis and management
  • Selective FGR: fetal monitoring and intervention
  • FGR and brain development
  • Recent advances and potential clinical applications of artificial placenta

Parallel Session 7B: AI in prenatal fetal medicine

  • Recent advances of AI assisted echo screening for CHD
  • AI assisted diagnostic system for fetal arrhythmia
  • Man vs. Machine: The Evolving Balance Between Human and Artificial Intelligence
  • The Evolution of AI: Mapping Our Collective Future
  • Futures in Focus: Mapping the Path to What Lies Ahead