Overcoming number numbness in prenatal risk communication.

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To develop a simulation model and assess the learning curve of fetal shunting. METHODS:Three staff and three trainees performed fetal shunting on a model using the fetal bladder stent. The model was evaluated according to various sources of validity evidence. The number of procedures to reach competency was...

journal_title：Prenatal diagnosis

authors： Phithakwatchara N,Nawapun K,Viboonchart S,Jaingam S,Wataganara T

更新日期：2019-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The objective of this article is to describe the diagnostic significance of prenatal identification of dilated supra-pineal recess (SPR) in cases of ventriculomegaly. METHOD:A retrospective study, based on neurosonography and magnetic resonance imaging, of a series of five prenatal cases referred to our inst...

journal_title：Prenatal diagnosis

authors： Azzi C,Giaconia MB,Lacalm A,Massoud M,Gaucherand P,Guibaud L

更新日期：2014-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Since 1993, the position of the American College of Medical Genetics (ACMG) has been that prenatal interphase fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) is investigational. In 1997, the FDA cleared the AneuVysion assay (Vysis, Inc.) to enumerate chromosomes 13, 18, 21, X and Y for prenatal diagnosis. Data is presented ...

journal_title：Prenatal diagnosis

authors： Tepperberg J,Pettenati MJ,Rao PN,Lese CM,Rita D,Wyandt H,Gersen S,White B,Schoonmaker MM

更新日期：2001-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 40-year-old woman underwent amniocentesis at 15.3 weeks of gestation. Chromosome analysis performed using QFQ, DA-DAPI and CBG banding revealed two de novo extra-chromosomal markers (ESACs) in 11 of the 16 colonies analysed. Fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) showed that both chromosomes came from the Yq11.22...

journal_title：Prenatal diagnosis

authors： Marchina E,Piovani G,Vezzola L,Bellotti D,Cerri V,Groli C,Barlati S

更新日期：2003-12-15 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：:A single base substitution in exon 10 of the glucocerebrosidase gene was detected in families affected by Gaucher disease (GD) type III. This mutation, which results in the substitution of proline for leucine in position 444 of glucocerebrosidase, has been shown to result in type III GD in a Swedish population. Three ...

journal_title：Prenatal diagnosis

authors： Dahl N,Wadelius C,Annerén G,Gustavson KH

更新日期：1992-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To evaluate whether cell-free fetal (cff) DNA in maternal plasma during the second trimester is a marker for developing pregnancy-associated complications. Two PCR techniques for the detection and quantitation of fetal DNA were compared. METHODS:Plasma samples were prospectively collected from 84 pregnant w...

journal_title：Prenatal diagnosis

authors： Bauer M,Hutterer G,Eder M,Majer S,Leshane E,Johnson KL,Peter I,Bianchi DW,Pertl B

更新日期：2006-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An increasing number of cytogenetic prenatal diagnoses are performed on chorionic villus samplings. The accuracy of this method is influenced by chromosomal mosaicism, mostly confined to direct preparation methods. Especially those investigators who have experienced false-negative and false-positive findings propagate...

journal_title：Prenatal diagnosis

authors： Kennerknecht I,Barbi G,Wolf M,Djalali M,Grab D,Terinde R,Vogel W

更新日期：1993-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:The purpose of this study was to demonstrate the normal perimeter and area of the three orthogonal planes (axial, sagittal and coronal) of the fetal Sylvian fissure along pregnancy using 3-dimensional (3D) ultrasound. METHODS:Ultrasound volumes of fetal head were acquired prospectively in 55 fetuses between...

journal_title：Prenatal diagnosis

authors： Gindes L,Malach S,Weisz B,Achiron R,Leibovitz Z,Weissmann-Brenner A

更新日期：2015-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Prenatal diagnosis of Duchenne and Becker muscular dystrophy is performed as a routine procedure in many laboratories around the world, using numerous molecular genetic techniques. Rather than discussing methods that are commonly in use, this review concentrates on some of the methods that are less widely available. T...

journal_title：Prenatal diagnosis

authors： Abbs S

更新日期：1996-12-01 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:To determine the type and frequency of pathogenic chromosomal abnormalities in fetuses diagnosed with congenital heart disease (CHD) using chromosomal microarray analysis (CMA) and validate next-generation sequencing as an alternative diagnostic method. METHOD:Chromosomal aneuploidies and submicroscopic copy...

journal_title：Prenatal diagnosis

authors： Zhu X,Li J,Ru T,Wang Y,Xu Y,Yang Y,Wu X,Cram DS,Hu Y

更新日期：2016-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To assess the factors associated with utilization of genetic counseling services among pregnant Israeli Arab women. METHODS:A case-control study was conducted among 414 pregnant Arab women who were referred by a family physician or a perinatologist to genetic counseling services between 2008 and 2011. Data ...

journal_title：Prenatal diagnosis

authors： Sharkia R,Tarabeia J,Zalan A,Atamany E,Athamna M,Allon-Shalev S

更新日期：2015-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:We theorized that a significant number of women would choose integrated screening (IS) over first trimester screening (FTS) and that demographic characteristics and baseline anxiety levels might predict which patients would choose each test. We also hypothesized that screening results might alter patients' fu...

journal_title：Prenatal diagnosis

authors： Werner EF,Pastore LM,Karns LB,Ventura KA,Saller DN

更新日期：2008-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Pregnant women who receive a high screening risk result for Down, Edwards or Patau syndrome are offered diagnostic tests that carry a risk of miscarriage. This study determined how many women had such tests per syndrome diagnosis. METHOD:The number of tests per Down, Edwards or Patau syndrome diagnosis adjus...

journal_title：Prenatal diagnosis

authors： Morris JK,Waters JJ,de Souza E

更新日期：2012-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper examines the association between fetal choroid plexus cysts (CPCs) and trisomy 18 and proposes a method by which risks can be derived taking into account both sonographic findings and maternal age. Data from our centre on the sonographic findings of 58 fetuses with trisomy 18 and 387 fetuses with CPCs as we...

journal_title：Prenatal diagnosis

authors： Snijders RJ,Shawa L,Nicolaides KH

更新日期：1994-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the first trimester of pregnancy the biochemical markers free beta-hCG and pregnancy associated plasma protein-A (PAPP-A) are used for the prenatal screening of trisomy 21, either alone or in combination with nuchal translucency (NT) thickness. In this study, I have analysed the distribution of these biochemical ma...

journal_title：Prenatal diagnosis

authors： Spencer K

更新日期：2000-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We present the first confirmed case by molecular analysis of a metaphyseal chondrodysplasia, McKusick type, in a 22-week fetus. Two novel compound heterozygous mutations, 64T> A and 79G > T, were found in the highly conserved regions of the RMRP gene. Twenty-two heterozygous g.1018 T> C mutations, two homozygous g.101...

journal_title：Prenatal diagnosis

authors： Lam AC,Chan DH,Tong TM,Tang MH,Lo SY,Lo IF,Lam ST

更新日期：2006-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Experience with three prenatally diagnosed pregnancies complicated by an acardiac twin reveals that ultrasonography and echocardiography are helpful in detecting early signs of in-utero congestive heart failure in the normal twin. The use of Doppler blood flow analysis to determine direction of blood flow, post-mortem...

journal_title：Prenatal diagnosis

authors： Donnenfeld AE,van de Woestijne J,Craparo F,Smith CS,Ludomirsky A,Weiner S

更新日期：1991-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe the prenatal diagnosis and fetal phenotype of partial trisomy 12 (p13.3-pter) and partial trisomy 21 (pter-q21) due to a 3:1 segregation with tertiary aneuploidy transmitted from a maternal reciprocal translocation 12;21. Genetic amniocentesis of a 39-year-old gravida 2, para 1 woman at 19 weeks' gestation...

journal_title：Prenatal diagnosis

authors： Chen CP,Lin CC,Chuang CY,Lee CC,Chen WL,Jan SW,Lin SP

更新日期：1997-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human chorionic gonadotrophin (hCG) levels were assayed retrospectively in stored maternal serum samples from 78 chromosomally abnormal pregnancies and 410 controls matched for gestation and maternal age. The median serum hCG concentration in 49 pregnancies with Down's syndrome was significantly elevated, at 2.18 mult...

journal_title：Prenatal diagnosis

authors： Crossley JA,Aitken DA,Connor JM

更新日期：1991-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Activity levels of total and placental alkaline phosphatase (AP) were determined in maternal serum and neutrophils of normal and Down syndrome pregnancies. The placental iso-enzyme (PAP) was identified by its relative stability to urea and heat. Significant increase in the activity of all iso-enzymes across gestationa...

journal_title：Prenatal diagnosis

authors： Peleg L,Ries L,Getslev V,Lusky A,Chaki R,Lipitz S,Barkai G

更新日期：1999-03-01 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：:A chorion villus sample (CVS) biopsied at 11 weeks' gestation for raised nuchal translucency, revealed monosomy X (presumptive 45,X karyotype) by QF-PCR for rapid aneuploidy testing for chromosomes 13, 18, 21, X and Y. Long-term culture gave the karyotype: 47,XY,+ 21[66]/49,XYY,+ 21,+ 21 [22]. This discrepancy prompte...

journal_title：Prenatal diagnosis

authors： Waters JJ,Walsh S,Levett LJ,Liddle S,Akinfenwa Y

更新日期：2006-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Problems can arise in prenatal screening for Down syndrome when tests are performed in the first and second trimester and some women who have a negative first trimester test have a second trimester serum test. The second test result does not usually take account of the previous one being negative. Even if it does, it ...

journal_title：Prenatal diagnosis

authors： Hackshaw AK,Wald NJ

更新日期：2001-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A cytogenetic survey and follow-up studies were made of 14 cases with supernumerary marker chromosomes, identified among 12,699 prenatal samples, investigated at our institution over a 10-year period from 1980 to 1990. FISH (fluorescence in situ hybridization) techniques were employed to identify the chromosomal origi...

journal_title：Prenatal diagnosis

authors： Brøndum-Nielsen K,Mikkelsen M

更新日期：1995-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Ultrasound examination performed on a 32-year old woman at 30 weeks' gestation showed the presence of fetal malformations. Amniocentesis was performed. METHODS AND RESULTS:Cytogenetic analysis of cultured amniocytes revealed an interstitial deletion of the long arm of chromosome 5. Molecular studies confirm...

journal_title：Prenatal diagnosis

authors： Malan V,Martinovic J,Sanlaville D,Caillat S,Waill MC,Ganne ML,Tantau J,Attie-Bitach T,Vekemans M,Morichon-Delvallez N

更新日期：2006-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Both human epidemiologic and animal model studies demonstrate that prenatal and lactational exposure to maternal obesity and high-fat diet are associated with adverse neurodevelopmental outcomes in offspring. Neurodevelopmental outcomes described in offspring of obese women include cognitive impairment, autism spectru...

journal_title：Prenatal diagnosis

authors： Shook LL,Kislal S,Edlow AG

更新日期：2020-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Experimental materno-embryonic transfusions with serum that is immunologically active against blood group antigens cause congenital malformations in the rat embryo. In view of the possible increased incidence of vascular disruptive syndromes after chorionic villus sampling (CVS), we investigated the occurrence of mate...

journal_title：Prenatal diagnosis

authors： Los FJ,Noomen P,Vermeij-Keers C,Gaillard JL,Brandenburg H,Jahoda MG,Luider TM

更新日期：1996-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The aim of this study is to explore the utility of rapid medical trio exome sequencing (ES) for prenatal diagnosis using the skeletal dysplasia as an exemplar. METHOD:Pregnant women who were referred for genetic testing because of ultrasound detection of fetal abnormalities suggestive of a skeletal dysplasia...

journal_title：Prenatal diagnosis

authors： Han J,Yang YD,He Y,Liu WJ,Zhen L,Pan M,Yang X,Zhang VW,Liao C,Li DZ

更新日期：2020-04-01 00:00:00