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Routine Prenatal Genetic Screening

New England Journal of Medicine, 1987
Standards of medical practice have traditionally been set by physicians on the basis of their best judgment of what constitutes good patient care. This tradition is in danger. The structure of medical practice — factors such as cost containment, the profit motive, government regulations, fear of medical-malpractice suits, media hype, and risk ...
S, Elias, G J, Annas
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Prenatal screening for cystic fibrosis

Clinics in Laboratory Medicine, 2003
This article focuses on essential components related to prenatal screening for cystic fibrosis, including the clinical disease, inheritance, prognosis and treatment, birth prevalence, and ethnic variability. The molecular basis of this disease is presented, including a discussion of the gene, mutations, and genotype/phenotype correlations.
Carolyn S, Richards, James E, Haddow
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Non-invasive prenatal diagnosis and screening for monogenic disorders.

European Journal of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Biology, 2020
Cell-free fetal DNA (cffDNA) can be detected in the maternal circulation from 4 weeks gestation, and is present with cell-free maternal DNA at a level of between 5 % and 20 %.
E. Scotchman, J. Shaw, B. Paternoster, N. Chandler, L. Chitty   +4 more
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Prenatal Screening

2018
Abstract This chapter provides information about a genetic counselor’s role in prenatal screening, including discussing and offering options to a patient, interpreting and providing results, or managing referrals based on abnormal results.
Amber Mathiesen Phillips, Kali Bogaard Roy   +1 more
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Prenatal Serologic Screening in Bahrain

Scandinavian Journal of Infectious Diseases, 1991
Between 1988 and 1990, serological surveys designed to study local disease prevalence and assess the clinical value of various prenatal screening tests were undertaken at Salmaniya Medical Center in Bahrain. High maternal antibody prevalence (greater than 85%) to cytomegalovirus (CMV), herpes simplex virus (HSV) and rubella was demonstrated, and 28 ...
A A, Yousif, M R, Wallace, B H, Baig, K, Rajab   +3 more
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Maternal Prenatal Screening and Serologies

Advances in Neonatal Care, 2018
Background: Maternal prenatal screening is essential in preventing pregnancy complications as well as preventing and/or predicting neonatal and infant medical issues after delivery that are due to certain communicable diseases.
Timothy M, Snow, Melissa, Coble
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Prenatal care, screening, and complications

Current Opinion in Obstetrics and Gynecology, 1991
Articles are reviewed that give the clinician new guidelines to diagnose neural tube defects without using amniocentesis. Cervical measurement using ultrasound as a tool to objectively evaluate and follow patients at risk for premature labor and incompetent cervix are reviewed.
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Prenatal screening

BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics & Gynaecology, 1998
J C, Dornan, M A, Harper, C A, Bailie
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ROUTINE PRENATAL SCREENING REVISITED

Health Care for Women International, 1999
Routine obstetric screening for all prenatal checkups is an important issue. This article is an attempt to answer the value of such screening in the case of hematocrit. Charts of pregnant women in the Family Medicine Practice Center at the American University of Beirut (AUB) over the last eight years were reviewed.
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Prenatal Screening for Hepatitis B

JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association, 1988
To the Editor. —Drs Arevalo and Washington 1 studied the "cost-effectiveness" of prenatal screening and immunization for hepatitis B virus. However, their methods mix benefit-cost and cost-effectiveness approaches. Their analysis is primarily a benefit-cost analysis, with all health events, savings, and costs put into dollar terms and the result ...
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