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Abortion for Fetal Genetic Abnormalities: Type of Abnormality and Gestational Age at Diagnosis

American Journal of Perinatology Reports, 2020
Background Advances in genetic screening can identify patients at high risk for common genetic conditions early in pregnancy and can facilitate early diagnosis and early abortion. Less common abnormalities might only be diagnosed with invasive testing is
Tracy B. Grossman, Stephen T. Chasen
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Prenatal Screening for Common Aneuploidy in Southeast Asian Countries: A Systematic Review of Challenges and Opportunities

Prenatal Diagnosis, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Southeast Asian (SEA) countries face persistent challenges in equitable healthcare delivery. Given the high prevalence of aneuploidy, increasing use of advanced prenatal screening technologies, and challenges reported in other regions, this study aimed to identify and assess existing policies and guidelines as well as the enablers and barriers
Rapphon Sawaddisan, Lucinda Freeman, Erin Turbitt, Alison McEwen   +3 more
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Evaluación de la Amniocentesis Precoz en una Institución Brasileña de Diagnóstico Prenatal

, 2012
<p>A pesar de que la amniocentesis tradicional (AT) es un procedimiento de comprobada seguridad y confianza, el diagnóstico citogenético resultante está disponible en un periodo tardío de la gestación.
Luz Mery Bernal Parra, Bernal Parra, Luz Mery   +1 more
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Assessment of Second Trimester Genetic Amniocentesis: A Review of 6 Years of Experience at Sanpatong Hospital, A Mid-level Secondary Hospital Setting

Biomedical Sciences and Clinical Medicine
OBJECTIVE This study aims to assess the indications, complications, and outcomes of second-trimester genetic amniocentesis performed at Sanpatong Hospital, Chiang Mai, Thailand.
Surachai Ponglopisit, Jantira Wisuthimateenorn, Kuttareeya pheungsontonsirimas, Maneewan Inta   +3 more
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Mosaic trisomy 17 at amniocentesis: Prenatal diagnosis, molecular genetic analysis, and literature review

Taiwanese Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology, 2016
Objective: We present prenatal diagnosis and molecular genetic analysis of mosaic trisomy 17 and a review of the literature of mosaic trisomy 17 at amniocentesis. Materials and Methods: A 42-year-old woman underwent amniocentesis at 17 weeks of gestation
Chih-Ping Chen, Liang-Kai Wang, Schu-Rern Chern, Yen-Ni Chen, Shin-Wen Chen, Peih-Shan Wu, Dai-Dyi Town, Chen-Wen Pan, Chien-Wen Yang, Wayseen Wang   +9 more
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Prenatal diagnosis of cardiac rhabdomyoma: implications for predicting tuberous sclerosis complex and guiding perinatal management

Ultrasound in Obstetrics &Gynecology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective To identify prenatal predictors of tuberous sclerosis complex (TSC) in fetuses with one or more cardiac rhabdomyomas (CR), evaluate an integrated multimodal diagnostic workflow using fetal magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and trio whole‐exome sequencing (trio‐WES) and characterize perinatal outcomes.
X. Cai, J. Liu, W. Zheng, Y. Jiao, Y. Lou, M. Deng, W. Zhao, K. Yan, L. Sun   +8 more
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Unbalanced and Balanced Acrocentric Rearrangements Involving Chromosomes Other Than Chromosome 21 at Amniocentesis

Taiwanese Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology, 2009
Objective: To investigate unbalanced and balanced acrocentric rearrangements involving chromosomes other than chromosome 21 at amniocentesis. Materials and Methods: From January 1987 to September 2009, 31,194 amniocenteses were performed at Mackay ...
Chih-Ping Chen, Schu-Rern Chern, Pei-Chen Wu, Fuu-Jen Tsai, Chen-Chi Lee, Dai-Dyi Town, Wen-Lin Chen, Li-Feng Chen, Meng-Shan Lee, Chen-Wen Pan, Wayseen Wang   +10 more
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Shaping Future Children, Sex Selection, and “Normal” Human Capacities

Bioethics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT If we think that parents have an obligation to have a healthy child then we need to know what counts as healthy, when male and female children are born with very different capacities. If we give up on the idea that our obligations to use technologies of genetic selection are discharged once we try to secure the birth of a healthy child, as ...
Robert Sparrow
wiley   +1 more source

Impact of Second-Trimester Maternal Serum Screening on Prenatal Diagnosis of Down Syndrome and the use of Amniocentesis in the Taiwanese Population

Taiwanese Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology, 2005
Objective: To investigate the impact of second-trimester maternal serum screening on prenatal diagnosis of Down syndrome and the use of amniocentesis in the Taiwanese population.
Chih-Ping Chen, Chen-Ju Lin, Wayseen Wang   +2 more
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Dialysis and Pregnancy: Optimizing Therapy for Best Maternal and Fetal Outcomes

Hemodialysis International, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Pregnancy in women with end‐stage kidney disease (ESKD) requiring dialysis remains high risk, with significant maternal and fetal complications. While fertility rates are markedly reduced in this population, advances in dialysis care and obstetric management have led to increasing reports of successful pregnancies.
Shreepriya Mangalgi, Silvi Shah
wiley   +1 more source