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Health literacy and attitudes toward prenatal screening tests among pregnant women: a cross-sectional study in Turkey [PDF]

BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
Background Due to the widespread use of screening methods and the increase in advanced age pregnancies, interest in prenatal screening tests is increasing day by day.
Dilek Hacıvelioğlu, Nurcan Çelik Odabaşı, Pınar Solmaz Hasdemir   +2 more
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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
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Contingent prenatal screening for frequent aneuploidies with cell-free fetal DNA analysis

Taiwanese Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology, 2021
Objective: To analyze the results of contingent screening for common aneuploidies at our center from June 2017 to June 2019. Materials and methods: Traditional screening tests were performed using a combination of biochemical markers and ultrasound ...
M. Rosario Torres Aguilar, Pilar Carrasco Salas, Cristina Santos Rosa, Guadalupe Bueno Rodríguez, Eduardo Martínez-Bonet, Práxedes Carreto Alba, Antonio León-Justel, M. Reyes Granell Escobar   +7 more
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Diagnostic value of maternal alpha-fetoprotein variants in second-trimester biochemical screening for trisomy 21 and 18

Scientific Reports, 2022
To evaluate the clinical predictive value of serum alpha-fetoprotein variants (AFP-L2, AFP-L3) in combination with maternal serum prenatal screening biomarkers in predicting fetal trisomy 21 and trisomy 18. We analyze the data of singleton pregnant women
Yiming Chen, Yijie Chen, Wenwen Ning, Wen Zhang, Liyao Li, Xiaoying Wang, Yixuan Yin, Huimin Zhang   +7 more
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Universal prenatal screening: a initiative from Guanajuato, Mexico to improve equity in perinatal healthcare

Frontiers in Medicine, 2023
The prenatal approach from a preventive perspective is necessary to reduce perinatal complications. A perinatal care model with a holistic and horizontal approach is required.
Ma de la Luz Bermudez Rojas, Virginia Medina Jimenez, Javier Ivan Manzanares Cuadros, Daniel Alberto Diaz Martínez, Nicolas Padilla Raygoza, Elia Lara Lona   +5 more
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New cut-off values for screening of trisomy 21, 18 and open neural tube defects (ONTD) during the second trimester in pregnant women with advanced maternal age

BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth, 2020
Background To determine whether advanced maternal age (AMA) causes changes in the maternal serum markers of Trisomy 21, 18 and open neural tube defects (ONTD) during the second trimester of pregnancy.
Yiming Chen, Xue Wang, Liyao Li, Sha Lu, Zhifen Zhang   +4 more
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Combined primary carnitine deficiency with neonatal intrahepatic cholestasis caused by citrin deficiency in a Chinese newborn

BMC Pediatrics, 2020
Background Primary carnitine deficiency (PCD) is an autosomal recessive disorder affecting the carnitine cycle and resulting in defective fatty acid oxidation.
Yiming Lin, Weihua Lin, Yanru Chen, Chunmei Lin, Zhenzhu Zheng, Jianlong Zhuang, Qingliu Fu   +6 more
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Non-invasive prenatal test to screen common trisomies in twin pregnancies

Molecular Cytogenetics, 2020
Objectives Recent years have witnessed a shift from invasive methods of prenatal screening to non-invasive strategies. Accordingly, non-invasive prenatal testing (NIPT) using cell-free fetal DNA in maternal plasma has gained a considerable deal of ...
Mahtab Motevasselian, Soraya Saleh Gargari, Sarang Younesi, Parichehr Pooransari, Pourandokht Saadati, Masoomeh Mirzamoradi, Shahram Savad, Mohammad Mahdi Taheri Amin, Mohammad-Hossein Modarresi, Maryam Afrakhteh, Soudeh Ghafouri-Fard   +10 more
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Relevance of Invasive Testing in Era of Non-Invasive Testing for Prenatal Chromosomal Abnormalities

Gynecology Obstetrics & Reproductive Medicine, 2022
Prenatal screening for chromosomal abnormalities has two components i.e. prenatal screening (maternal serum screening and cell-free fetal DNA screening) and prenatal diagnosis (chorionic villus sampling, amniocentesis, and cordocentesis).
Abhijeet Kumar, Madhusudan Dey, Devendra Arora   +2 more
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A comprehensive overview of SMN and NAIP copy numbers in Iranian SMA patients

Scientific Reports, 2023
Spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) is among the most common autosomal recessive disorders with different incidence rates in different ethnic groups. In the current study, we have determined SMN1, SMN2 and NAIP copy numbers in an Iranian population using MLPA ...
Shahram Savad, Mahmoud Reza Ashrafi, Niusha Samadaian, Morteza Heidari, Mohammad-Hossein Modarressi, Gholamreza Zamani, Saloomeh Amidi, Sarang Younesi, Mohammad Mahdi Taheri Amin, Pourandokht Saadati, Alireza Ronagh, Hossein Shojaaldini Ardakani, Solat Eslami, Soudeh Ghafouri-Fard   +13 more
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