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Detection rates of abnormalities in over 10,000 amniotic fluid samples at a single laboratory

BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth, 2023
Background A growing number of cytogenetic techniques have been used for prenatal diagnosis. This study aimed to demonstrate the usefulness of karyotyping, BACs-on-Beads (BoBs) assay and single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) array in prenatal diagnosis ...
Sha Lu, Nisile Kakongoma, Wen-sheng Hu, Yan-zhen Zhang, Nan-nan Yang, Wen Zhang, Ai-fen Mao, Yi Liang, Zhi-fen Zhang   +8 more
doaj   +1 more source

Prenatal hospitalization and compliance with guidelines for prenatal care. [PDF]

American Journal of Public Health, 1996
OBJECTIVES: This study examined the relationship between compliance with the US Public Health Service guidelines for prenatal care and the rate of prenatal hospitalization. METHODS: For all women admitted to a Boston referral center during January and February 1993 with a pregnancy of at least 18 weeks gestation (n = 1400), a proportional hazards ...
E. F. Cook, Jennifer S. Haas, Stuart M. Berman, A. B. Goldberg, L. W. K. Lee   +4 more
openaire   +4 more sources

The Dependent Coverage Provision Is Good for Mothers, Good for Children, and Good for Taxpayers [PDF]

, 2018
Importance The effect of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) dependent coverage provision on pregnancy-related health care and health outcomes is unknown. Objective To determine whether the dependent coverage provision was associated with changes in payment
Carroll, Aaron E., Cheng, Erika R.
core   +1 more source

Clinical overview on RASopathies

American Journal of Medical Genetics Part C: Seminars in Medical Genetics, Volume 190, Issue 4, Page 414-424, December 2022., 2022
Abstract RASopathies comprise a group of clinically overlapping developmental disorders caused by genetic variations affecting components or modulators of the RAS‐MAPK signaling cascade, which lead to dysregulation of signal flow through this pathway.
Martin Zenker
wiley   +1 more source

A Qualitative Study of an Integrated Maternity, Drugs and Social Care Service for Drug-using Women [PDF]

, 2006
Background: The care of drug-using pregnant women is a growing health and social care concern in many countries. A specialist clinic was established offering multidisciplinary care and advice to pregnant drug users in and around Aberdeen (UK) in 1997 ...
A Tashakkori, AB Berenson, ACMD (Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs), ACMD (Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs), B Gillham, C Hogg, C Pope, C Siney, C Siney, C Siney, C Sparey, DL Finfgeld, E Mitchell, E Pitchforth, Edwin R van Teijlingen, ER van Teijlingen, FD Johnstone, H Klee, H Klee, H Klee, I Crome, Information and Statistics Division, J Keen, J Mason, Jennifer L Hall, K Clarke, KM Carroll, LM Jannson, M Hepburn, M Hepburn, M Hepburn, M Hepburn, M Wilyman-Bugter, MC Freda, N Lloyd-Knapman, N Mays, S Dawe, S Lewis, S Wright, Scottish Executive Health Department, Scottish Office (Department of Health), SR Kandall   +41 more
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Case Report: The third-generation sequencing confirmed a novel 7.2 Kb deletion at β-globin gene in a patient with rare β-thalassemia

Frontiers in Genetics, 2022
Background: Thalassemia was the most common monogenic diseases worldwide, which was caused by mutations, deletions or duplications in human globin genes which disturbed the synthesis balance between α- and β-globin chains of hemoglobin.
Guoxing Zhong, Zeyan Zhong, Zhiyang Guan, Dina Chen, Zhiyong Wu, Kunxiang Yang, Dan Chen, Yinyin Liu, Ruofan Xu, Jianhong Chen   +9 more
doaj   +1 more source

The Adequacy of Prenatal Care in Rural Kansas Related to Distance Traveled [PDF]

, 2022
Introduction. Prenatal care is essential for optimizing the health of a woman and her baby. Multiple factors have created barriers in the access to prenatal care in rural Kansas.
Kelly, Kelsie, Kennedy, Michael, Lemke, Corinna   +2 more
core   +2 more sources

11q13.3q13.4 deletion plus 9q21.13q21.33 duplication in an affected girl arising from a familial four‐way balanced chromosomal translocation

Molecular Genetics & Genomic Medicine, 2023
Background We describe a 13‐year‐old girl with a 11q13.3q13.4 deletion encompassing the SHANK2 gene and a 9q21.13q21.33 duplication. She presented with pre‐ and postnatal growth retardation, global developmental delay, severe language delay, cardiac ...
Qinxin Zhang, Yan Wang, Jing Zhou, Ran Zhou, An Liu, Lulu Meng, Xiuqing Ji, Ping Hu, Zhengfeng Xu   +8 more
doaj   +1 more source

Treatments for pregestational chronic conditions during pregnancy: emulating a target trial with a treatment decision design [PDF]

arXiv, 2023
As a solution to methodologic challenges inherent to estimating causal effects of exposures in early pregnancy, we suggest emulating a target trial using a treatment decision design, wherein time zero is centered around clinical landmarks where treatment decisions may occur, such as the date of preconception counseling or prenatal care initiation ...
arxiv  

Estimation of causal effects using instrumental variables with nonignorable missing covariates: Application to effect of type of delivery NICU on premature infants [PDF]

Annals of Applied Statistics 2014, Vol. 8, No. 1, 48-73, 2014
Understanding how effective high-level NICUs (neonatal intensive care units that have the capacity for sustained mechanical assisted ventilation and high volume) are compared to low-level NICUs is important and valuable for both individual mothers and for public policy decisions.
arxiv   +1 more source