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Female infanticide and amniocentesis
Social Science & Medicine, 1984Clinical services offering amniocentesis to inform women of the sex of their foetuses have appeared in North India in the past 10 years. They fit into cultural patterns in which girls are devalued, and some authors have seen direct links between female infanticide (assumed to have been eradicated by 1900), female neglect leading to higher infant and ...
Roger Jeffery +2 more
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Fetal Complications of Amniocentesis
JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association, 1968Amniocentesis is an invaluable diagnostic tool. In the hands of the experienced, the complication rate is small but not unimportant. The possibility of puncturing the fetus at any point, injecting dye into the fetus, introducing infection, precipitating fetomaternal hemorrhage, or traumatizing the placenta must always be kept in mind.
William T. Creasman +2 more
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Abortion, Amniocentesis and the Law
The American Journal of Comparative Law, 1986This paper is centered upon legal relationships between medical recourse to abortion and the results of prenatal testing of a fetus conducted by amniocentesis. This procedure will be considered in the context of its special features, but it may be treated as representative of a number of modern methods of prenatal diagnosis, which includes ultrasound ...
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On the Complication Risk of Early Amniocentesis versus Standard Amniocentesis
Fetal Diagnosis and Therapy, 1997In the last 6 years early amniocentesis for the prenatal diagnosis of chromosome aberrations has been established in many centers worldwide, but knowledge about the gynecological safety of the procedure is sparse. From 1990 to 1995 at the Evangelisches Krankenhaus Oberhausen (Germany) 3,277 early amniocenteses (between weeks 11 and 14) and 1,808 ...
R. Goebel +7 more
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Amniocentesis in the context of infertility
Health Care for Women International, 1991The encounter with amniocentesis compels infertile couples to experience again the mix of adversity, uncertainty, and hope characterizing both infertility and prenatal testing. Findings from open-ended interviews of 38 couples, 25 infertile and 13 fertile, participating in an ongoing longitudinal field study of infertile childbearing and adopting ...
Margarete Sandelowski +2 more
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JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association, 1976
To the Editor.— The results of the prospective study by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development have been reported (234:1219, 1975) showing amniocentesis to be a safe diagnostic procedure. No mention was made of the contribution or role of ultrasound in this procedure.
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To the Editor.— The results of the prospective study by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development have been reported (234:1219, 1975) showing amniocentesis to be a safe diagnostic procedure. No mention was made of the contribution or role of ultrasound in this procedure.
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Crossing the chorion: Amniocentesis
The Journal of Pediatrics, 1964“The death of a human fetus with erythroblastosis fetalis may have been preventedby intrauterine blood transfused into the fetal peritoneum around the 30th week of pregnancy.” News item, The Medical Tribune, World Wide Report, Rochester, N. Y., March 27, 1964.
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1973
Publisher Summary This chapter discusses amniocentesis and the cell culturing. Amniocentesis has been revived for the detection of congenital fetal abnormalities early in pregnancy in high risk families. Sufficient experience has been obtained in a number of clinics to confirm that cells from amniotic fluid can be successfully grown in tissue culture ...
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Publisher Summary This chapter discusses amniocentesis and the cell culturing. Amniocentesis has been revived for the detection of congenital fetal abnormalities early in pregnancy in high risk families. Sufficient experience has been obtained in a number of clinics to confirm that cells from amniotic fluid can be successfully grown in tissue culture ...
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