Assaying the granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor (GM-CSF) as a mitogen of immature cells in fetal blood cultures.

abstract：OBJECTIVES:The aims of this study were (1) to assess the accuracy of estimated fetal weight (EFW) in twins and (2) to assess the accuracy of sonographic examination to predict birth weight discordance (BWD). METHODS:We retrospectively analyzed collected data on twin pregnancies between 2004 and 2007. All twin pregnanc...

journal_title：Prenatal diagnosis

authors： Diaz-Garcia C,Bernard JP,Ville Y,Salomon LJ

更新日期：2010-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To present the prenatal diagnosis of mosaic distal 5p deletion and a review of the literature. CLINICAL SUBJECT AND METHODS:A 37-year-old woman, gravida 2, para 1, underwent genetic amniocentesis at 17 weeks' gestation because of advanced maternal age. Cytogenetic analysis of the cultured amniocytes reveale...

journal_title：Prenatal diagnosis

authors： Chen CP,Lee CC,Chang TY,Town DD,Wang W

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The uptake of any screening test is influenced by knowledge of the condition being screened for. In the present study, the knowledge and the source of knowledge of women offered antenatal screening for Down syndrome (DS) was assessed by means of a self-administered questionnaire. The questionnaire was administered to ...

journal_title：Prenatal diagnosis

authors： Chilaka VN,Konje JC,Stewart CR,Narayan H,Taylor DJ

更新日期：2001-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The objective was to describe the development, characteristics, and initial use of an instrument for assessing knowledge about maternal serum screening (MSS). Items for a knowledge scale were selected based on a review of educational materials, the literature, and expert opinion. Items were pre-tested for comprehensib...

journal_title：Prenatal diagnosis

authors： Goel V,Glazier R,Holzapfel S,Pugh P,Summers A

更新日期：1996-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:The purpose of this study was to compare prenatal versus postnatal markers of congenital diaphragmatic hernia (CDH) severity at a single fetal-care center. METHODS:A retrospective study was performed of patients having a complete prenatal evaluation and surgical repair (n = 55). Observed-to-expected lung-to...

journal_title：Prenatal diagnosis

authors： Werner NL,Coughlin M,Kunisaki SM,Hirschl R,Ladino-Torres M,Berman D,Kreutzman J,Mychaliska GB

更新日期：2016-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Fetoscopic endoluminal tracheal occlusion (FETO) may improve outcome of severe isolated congenital diaphragmatic hernia (iCDH). We aimed to identify any discrepancy between initial assessment at the referring hospital and the evaluation at the fetal surgery center, and to document parental decisions following...

journal_title：Prenatal diagnosis

authors： Done E,Gucciardo L,Van Mieghem T,Devriendt K,Allegaert K,Brady P,Devlieger R,De Catte L,Lewi L,Deprest J

更新日期：2017-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report a case of severe intrauterine growth retardation (IUGR) and hypospadias in association with trisomy 22 diagnosed following chorionic villus sampling (CVS). Subsequent analysis of amniotic fluid cultures showed a normal male karyotype, 46,XY. As a previous case had been reported with similar abnormalities, in...

journal_title：Prenatal diagnosis

authors： Bryan J,Peters M,Pritchard G,Healey S,Payton D

更新日期：2002-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Twin pregnancy has a disproportionate effect on perinatal mortality, being six times higher than for singleton gestations. The major threats to perinatal survival are from two very different pathological processes: spontaneous preterm delivery, and the interlacing clinical complications of monochorionicity. With the r...

journal_title：Prenatal diagnosis

authors： Bajoria R,Kingdom J

更新日期：1997-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gas chromatographic/mass spectrometric (GC/MS) analysis of maternal urine and serum steroids from 13 pregnancies at 25% risk for Smith-Lemli-Opitz syndrome (SLOS) was undertaken. All patients were between 12 and 31 weeks' gestational age. From dehydrocholesterol/cholesterol ratios determined in amniotic fluid and chor...

journal_title：Prenatal diagnosis

authors： Shackleton CH,Roitman E,Kratz L,Kelley R

更新日期：2001-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An extra small chromosome detected in amniotic fluid was identified as the product of a translocation [46,XX,t(9;15)(p24;q11.2)]. This case is unusual in that individuals with the unbalanced karyotype resulting from a 3:1 disjunction are phenotypically normal. ...

journal_title：Prenatal diagnosis

authors： Winsor EJ,Van Allen MI

更新日期：1989-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nuchal translucency (NT) measurement between 11 and 14 weeks' gestation is an undisputed marker for aneuploidies. When conventional karyotyping is normal, enlarged NT is a strong marker for adverse pregnancy outcome, associated with miscarriage, intrauterine death, congenital heart defects, and numerous other structur...

journal_title：Prenatal diagnosis

authors： Bilardo CM,Timmerman E,Pajkrt E,van Maarle M

更新日期：2010-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To identify the correlation between the renal vascularization index (VI), the flow index (FI) and the vascularization and flow index (VFI) and placental and fetal hemodynamics in fetuses with growth restriction. METHOD:Bidimensional ultrasound and three-dimensional power Doppler with the VOCAL technique were...

journal_title：Prenatal diagnosis

authors： Doro GF,Senra JC,Rodrigues AS,Miyadahira S,Ribeiro RL,Francisco RPV,Bernardes LS

更新日期：2017-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Complications in pregnancy are suggested to be the result of intrauterine conditions in the first trimester of pregnancy. Three-dimensional ultrasound volume measurements might give more information, compared with two-dimensional measurements. Commonly available methods for volume measurements are not suited ...

journal_title：Prenatal diagnosis

authors： Smeets NA,Dvinskikh NA,Winkens B,Oei SG

更新日期：2012-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fetal choroid plexuses have attracted the attention of perinatologists and geneticists because of the reported association between intrachoroid cysts and chromosomal abnormalities. This report deals with another variation in choroid plexus sonographic appearance-size variation. Sonographic follow-up results as well as...

journal_title：Prenatal diagnosis

authors： Petrikovsky BM,Kaplan GP

更新日期：1996-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The aim of this study was to compare the levels of maternal serum placental growth factor (PlGF) and soluble fms-like tyrosine kinase-1 (sFlt-1) between pregnancies with fetal hemoglobin (Hb) Bart's disease and unaffected pregnancies. METHODS:Ninety-one pregnancies at risk for fetal Hb Bart's disease schedul...

journal_title：Prenatal diagnosis

authors： Tongprasert F,Srisupundit K,Luewan S,Tongsong T

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A study of the association between aneuploidy and fetal choroid plexus cysts (CPCs) is presented. By reviewing the world prospective and retrospective studies, one cannot reach an agreed conclusion since different study designs were used and meta analysis is not feasible. Our experience is that as a solitary ultrasono...

journal_title：Prenatal diagnosis

authors： Sharony R

更新日期：1997-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During one year, five second trimester fetuses with cystic hygromata and varying degrees of oedema presented to the authors from hospitals in the West of Scotland. Two fetuses had 45X karyotypes, one each had 47XY + 21 and 47XX + 18 karyotypes, and the fifth had a normal 46XY karyotype. Fetal oedema detectable by ultr...

journal_title：Prenatal diagnosis

authors： Redford DH,McNay MB,Ferguson-Smith ME,Jamieson ME

更新日期：1984-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:This study aims to evaluate the prevalence of congenital heart disease (CHD) in monochorionic (MC) twin pregnancies with and without twin-to-twin transfusion syndrome (TTTS) in an unselected cohort, which underwent prenatal and postnatal echocardiography. METHOD:This was a retrospective cohort study includin...

journal_title：Prenatal diagnosis

authors： Springer S,Mlczoch E,Krampl-Bettelheim E,Mailáth-Pokorny M,Ulm B,Worda C,Worda K

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To establish the relationship between the first-trimester screening markers [pregnancy-associated plasma protein A (PAPP-A), free human chorionic gonadotrophin-beta (beta-hCG), nuchal translucency (NT)], the Down syndrome (DS) risk estimate, and the adverse outcomes such as low birth weight, small for gestati...

journal_title：Prenatal diagnosis

authors： Pihl K,Sørensen TL,Nørgaard-Pedersen B,Larsen SO,Nguyen TH,Krebs L,Larsen T,Christiansen M

更新日期：2008-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This report describes a case of a paternal balanced, but apparently non-reciprocal, insertion of chromosome 15 material into the short arm of chromosome 17 with difficulties in distinguishing between the normal and the deleted chromosome 15 in prenatal karyotype analysis. Microdissection and degenerate oligonucleotide...

journal_title：Prenatal diagnosis

authors： Senger G,Chudoba I,Friedrich U,Tommerup N,Claussen U,Brøndum-Nielsen K

更新日期：1997-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The diagnosis of Dandy-Walker malformation was made on the ultrasonographic evaluation of a 33-week male fetus. Pedigree analysis revealed a family history of isolated Dandy-Walker malformation in three other males, suggesting an X-linked recessive inheritance pattern. ...

journal_title：Prenatal diagnosis

authors： Cowles T,Furman P,Wilkins I

更新日期：1993-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To compare the prognostic value of fetal serum α1-microglobulin with that of β2-microglobulin and cystatin C for postnatal renal function. METHOD:Retrospective study of α1-microglobulin, β2-microglobulin, and cystatin C in fetal serum from 126 fetuses with congenital abnormalities of the kidney and urinary t...

journal_title：Prenatal diagnosis

authors： Nguyen C,Dreux S,Heidet L,Czerkiewicz I,Salomon LJ,Guimiot F,Schmitz T,Tsatsaris V,Boulot P,Rousseau T,Muller F

更新日期：2013-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To present the prenatal genetic diagnoses and counseling for two cases of oculocutaneous albinism (OCA) type I family by detection of mutations in the OCA1 gene by denaturing high performance liquid chromatography (DHPLC) system and a review of the literature. METHODS:All DNA samples were extracted from per...

journal_title：Prenatal diagnosis

authors： Lin SY,Chien SC,Su YN,Lee CN,Chen CP

更新日期：2006-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To determine the detection rates of whole-genome microarray technology compared to targeted microarray analysis for chromosome abnormalities in prenatal samples submitted for diagnostic testing. METHODS:Microarray analysis using either whole-genome bacterial artificial chromosome (BAC)-based and oligonucleot...

journal_title：Prenatal diagnosis

authors： Coppinger J,Alliman S,Lamb AN,Torchia BS,Bejjani BA,Shaffer LG

更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nine hundred and thirty-six prenatal chromosomal analyses were performed by four cytogenetic centres after ultrasound diagnosis of fetal abnormalities, amniotic fluid disorders, fetal growth retardation, and fetal or placental abnormalities. During the same period, 6515 fetal karyotypes were analysed because of matern...

journal_title：Prenatal diagnosis

authors： Eydoux P,Choiset A,Le Porrier N,Thépot F,Szpiro-Tapia S,Alliet J,Ramond S,Viel JF,Gautier E,Morichon N

更新日期：1989-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To describe prenatal magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) findings of dural sinus malformation (DSM), a very rare, congenital form of dural arteriovenous shunt (DAVS), typically affecting newborns. METHODS:Ultrasound (US) and MRI were performed at 34 weeks' gestation, and the findings of these examinations were ...

journal_title：Prenatal diagnosis

authors： Rossi A,De Biasio P,Scarso E,Gandolfo C,Pavanello M,Morana G,Venturini PL,Tortori-Donati P

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe the case of a patient with systemic lupus erythematosus, treated by corticosteroids, who presented during two successive pregnancies with serological reactivation of toxoplasmosis associated with fetal lesions. The first infected fetus died in utero with signs of hydrops. The second fetus was treated in ut...

journal_title：Prenatal diagnosis

authors： D'Ercole C,Boubli L,Franck J,Casta M,Harle JR,Chagnon C,Cravello L,Leclaire M,Blanc B

更新日期：1995-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Toriello-Carey syndrome is a rare malformative complex, described for the first time in 1988, characterized by agenesis of the corpus callosum, facial anomalies, cardiac defects and hypotonia. Relatively few neonatal cases have been reported. We describe here the first prenatal ultrasound diagnosis of the syndrome bas...

journal_title：Prenatal diagnosis

authors： Paladini D,Russo MG,Tartaglione A,Loffredo A,Martinelli P

更新日期：2002-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thirty perinatal solid tissue samples were used in a pilot study to test the efficacy of collagenase disaggregation onto coverslips, open system culture under low O2 conditions, pre-harvest incubation in bromodeoxyuridine (BrdU) and colcemid, and in situ automated harvesting. Following the success of the pilot study, ...

journal_title：Prenatal diagnosis

authors： Fisher AM,Cockwell AE,Moore KJ,Gregson NM,Campbell PL,Campbell CM,Herbert A,Barber JC,Crolla JA

更新日期：1996-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To describe the prognosis of subtle findings on fetal brain imaging in pregnant women with primary CMV infection during pregnancy. METHODS:This was a retrospective study. The data included: timing of infection, amniocentesis results, imaging findings, obstetric outcome, and developmental assessment. RESULTS...

journal_title：Prenatal diagnosis

authors： Roee B,Adi W,Michael B,Igal W,Karina KH,Liat BS,Gustavo M

更新日期：2020-03-01 00:00:00