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Views and attitudes about the offer of NIPT: a qualitative study of UK healthcare professionals
Background Healthcare professionals have ethical duties to provide information according to conceptions of the doctor-patient relationship, and one way this responsibility is established in practice is by UK guidance on shared decision making.
Peter D. Young, Katherine M. Sahan
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Introduction: The abdominal muscles play a crucial role in posture, trunk stability, and respiration. They regulate Intra-abdominal Pressure (IAP), support spinal stability, and function as accessory respiratory muscles during increased respiratory ...
M Chinmayi, SN Tejaswini, Abeeshna Ashok
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Strategies to Detect Chromosomal Anomalies Not Identified by NIPT
ABSTRACTIntroductionGenome‐wide non‐invasive prenatal testing (gwNIPT) has screening limitations for detectable chromosomal conditions and cannot detect microdeletions/microduplications (MD) or triploidy. Thickened nuchal translucency (NT) only detects around 10% of these cases.MethodsA 4‐year retrospective study of singleton pregnancies undergoing ...
Fergus Scott +4 more
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Background Noninvasive prenatal testing (NIPT) is widely used to screen for fetal aneuploidies. However, there are few reports of using NIPT for screening chromosomal microduplications and microdeletions.
Ye Shi +5 more
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BackgroundNon-invasive prenatal testing (NIPT) has demonstrated robust performance in detecting common trisomies and copy number variations. However, its clinical utility for rare chromosomal abnormalities (RCAs) remains controversial due to low positive
Haimei Qi +8 more
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Should the scope of NIPT be limited by a ‘threshold of seriousness’?
Abstract Non-invasive prenatal testing (NIPT) has the potential to screen for a wider range of genetic conditions than is currently possible at an early stage of pregnancy and with minimal risks. As such, there have been calls to apply a ‘threshold of seriousness’ to limit the scope of conditions being tested.
Michelle Taylor-Sands +2 more
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Abstract Introduction: This is a retrospective study of 306 pregnant women of which 182 had genetic testing with NIPT plus and CMA, and another 124 had genetic testing with standard NIPT and CMA. To compare the clinical performance of NIPT and NIPT plus in prenatal evaluation, and the NIPT results were compared to CMA as the gold standard to ...
Meilin Chen# +7 more
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Non-invasiv prenatal test (NIPT) [PDF]
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