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Regulating non-invasive prenatal testing (NIPT) for fetal sex determination. [PDF]

Med Law Rev, 2023
Non-invasive prenatal testing (NIPT) can be used to determine the chromosomal sex of the fetus at an early stage in a pregnancy. The use of NIPT for fetal sex determination raises concerns about potential selective termination of pregnancy by prospective
Taylor-Sands M, Warton C, Bowman-Smart H.   +2 more
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Case Report: Challenges of Non-Invasive Prenatal Testing (NIPT): A Case Report of Confined Placental Mosaicism and Clinical Considerations. [PDF]

Front Genet, 2022
Since the introduction of cell-free (cf) DNA analysis, Non-Invasive Prenatal Testing (NIPT) underwent a deep revolution. Pregnancies at high risk for common fetal aneuploidies can now be easily identified through the analysis of chromosome-derived ...
Bonanni G, Trevisan V, Zollino M, De Santis M, Romanzi F, Lanzone A, Bevilacqua E.   +6 more
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Evaluation of pre-test counselling offered for non-invasive prenatal testing (NIPT) as a primary screening tool

Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, 2023
The increasing popularity and expansion of non-invasive prenatal testing (NIPT) to screen for rare conditions beyond common trisomies prompts evaluation of pre-test counselling currently offered.
Ho Yin Diana Lee, Lin Wai Chan
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Rethinking counselling in prenatal screening: An ethical analysis of informed consent in the context of non-invasive prenatal testing (NIPT). [PDF]

Bioethics, 2020
Informed consent is a key condition for prenatal screening programmes to reach their aim of promoting reproductive autonomy. Reaching this aim is currently being challenged with the introduction of non‐invasive prenatal testing (NIPT) in first‐trimester ...
Kater-Kuipers A, de Beaufort ID, Galjaard RH, Bunnik EM.   +3 more
europepmc   +2 more sources

Patient Perception of Negative Noninvasive Prenatal Testing Results [PDF]

American Journal of Perinatology Reports, 2016
Objective To determine patient perception of residual risk after receiving a negative non-invasive prenatal testing result. Introduction Recent technological advances have yielded a new method of prenatal screening, non-invasive prenatal ...
A. Theresa Wittman, S. Shahrukh Hashmi, Hector Mendez-Figueroa, Salma Nassef, Blair Stevens, Claire N. Singletary   +5 more
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Patient experience with non-invasive prenatal testing (NIPT) as a primary screen for aneuploidy in the Netherlands. [PDF]

BMC Pregnancy Childbirth, 2022
Background Non-invasive prenatal testing (NIPT) as a screening method for trisomy 21 and other chromosomal abnormalities has been adopted widely across the globe.
Kristalijn SA, White K, Eerbeek D, Kostenko E, Grati FR, Bilardo CM.   +5 more
europepmc   +2 more sources

Facilitating informed choice about non-invasive prenatal testing (NIPT): a systematic review and qualitative meta-synthesis of women's experiences. [PDF]

BMC Pregnancy Childbirth, 2019
BackgroundNon-invasive prenatal testing (NIPT) can be used to accurately detect fetal chromosomal anomalies early in pregnancy by assessing cell-free fetal DNA present in maternal blood.
Cernat A, De Freitas C, Majid U, Trivedi F, Higgins C, Vanstone M.   +5 more
europepmc   +2 more sources

A Decade of Non-Invasive Prenatal Testing (NIPT) for Chromosomal Abnormalities in Croatia: First National Monocentric Study to Inform Country's Future Prenatal Care Strategy. [PDF]

Genes (Basel)
Background: Chromosomal numerical and structural alterations are significant causes of various developmental disorders in foetuses. Non-invasive prenatal testing (NIPT) has emerged as an effective screening tool for detecting common aneuploidies, aiding ...
Podobnik P, Meštrović T, Đorđević A, Kurdija K, Jelčić D, Ogrin N, Bertović-Žunec I, Gebauer-Vuković B, Hočevar G, Lončar I, Srebreniković Z, Trobina P, Bitenc M, Dumić-Čule I.   +13 more
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Making use of non-invasive prenatal testing (NIPT): rethinking issues of routinization and pressure [PDF]

Journal of Perinatal Medicine, 2021
First mapping the main ethical issues surrounding prenatal testing, we then analyze which concerns are specific to non-invasive methods. Presupposing the privatization premise for reproductive autonomy in fundamentally liberal societies, we go on to ...
Bettina Schöne-Seifert, Chiara Junker
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The efficacy of expanded non-invasive prenatal testing (NIPT) in a high-risk twin pregnancies cohort. [PDF]

Acta Obstet Gynecol Scand
Our objective was to evaluate the efficacy of expanded non‐invasive prenatal testing (NIPT) that includes both trisomies and copy number variants (CNVs) in high‐risk twin pregnancies.
Meng M, Chen J, Yang Y, Zhang Y, Zou G, Zhou F, Wei X, Ge Y, Zhou J, Sun L.   +9 more
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