Amniotic fluid microvillar enzyme activities in the early detection of fetal abnormalities.

abstract：:Prenatal diagnosis of long-chain 3-hydroxyacyl-CoA dehydrogenase (3-HAD) deficiency was performed in a family at risk. The diagnosis of an affected fetus was carried out by enzyme assay in cultured chorionic villus cells. ...

journal_title：Prenatal diagnosis

authors： Pérez-Cerdá C,Merinero B,Jiménez A,García MJ,Sanz P,Ijlst L,Wanders RJ,Ugarte M

更新日期：1993-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report the prenatal diagnosis of a fetus with a de novo Robertsonian translocation: 45,XY,der(15;15)(q10;q10). Although Robertsonian translocations are common chromosomal rearrangements, those involving homologous chromosomes are infrequent. Since chromosome 15 is imprinted, uniparental disomy (UPD) is a concern wh...

journal_title：Prenatal diagnosis

authors： Abrams DJ,Aronoff AR,Ann Berend S,Roa BB,Shaffer LG,Geier MR

更新日期：2001-08-01 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：:Ataxia telangiectasia (AT) is a severe autosomal recessive disease, rare but not infrequent in Italy. Owing to the seriousness of the disease, prenatal diagnosis has been attempted in the past by means of cytogenetic, biochemical, radio-biological and indirect molecular analyses. We performed the first direct molecula...

journal_title：Prenatal diagnosis

authors： Chessa L,Piane M,Prudente S,Carducci C,Mazzilli MC,Pachti A,Negrini M,Narducci MG,Russo G,Frati L

更新日期：1999-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Pure duplication of chromosome 18p is rare, with clinical phenotypes ranging from normal or slight abnormalities to various degrees of mental retardation. It remains difficult to establish a clear genotype-phenotype correlation. METHODS:Chromosomal karyotyping analysis was performed on cultured amniotic f...

journal_title：Prenatal diagnosis

authors： Wang R,Zhang H,Li L,Yue F,Jiang Y,Li S,Liu R

更新日期：2019-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To determine the visualization rates of fetal anatomic structures by three-dimensional ultrasound (3DUS) at 12-13 weeks of gestation. STUDY DESIGN:This was a prospective observational study of women presenting for nuchal translucency ultrasound. Five 3D volumes of the fetus were acquired transabdominally. Tw...

journal_title：Prenatal diagnosis

authors： Bhaduri M,Fong K,Toi A,Tomlinson G,Okun N

更新日期：2010-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Intrauterine fetal demise (IUFD) in one of twins at 12 weeks of gestation was accompanied by markedly elevated maternal serum alpha-fetoprotein (AFP) at 17 and 18 weeks. Amniotic fluid AFP from the healthy surviving twin's sac at 18.5 and 23 weeks was also greatly increased along with a positive acetylcholinesterase (...

journal_title：Prenatal diagnosis

authors： Bass HN,Oliver JB,Srinivasan M,Petrucha R,Ng W,Lee JE

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper reports prenatal diagnosis of 787 fetuses of beta-thalassaemia and other haemoglobinopathies in Indian high-risk communities. DNA based diagnosis was offered in the first, as well as the second trimester, in 489 pregnancies (with five twins) on fetal tissues such as chorionic villus (CV) and amniocytes usin...

journal_title：Prenatal diagnosis

authors： Thakur (Mahadik) C,Vaz F,Banerjee M,Kapadia C,Natrajan PG,Yagnik H,Gangal S

更新日期：2000-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The aim of this study is to evaluate whether the measurement of the frontal space (FS) improves first trimester combined aneuploidy screening. METHODS:We have presented a retrospective study including 2D images of the nuchal translucency measurement of 300 euploid and 133 trisomic fetuses that were seen at t...

journal_title：Prenatal diagnosis

authors： Yazdi B,Riefler P,Fischmüller K,Sonek J,Hoopmann M,Kagan KO

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Prenatal diagnosis of pyruvate carboxylase (PC) deficiency was performed in a family at risk for the acute neonatal form of this disease which manifests secondary citrullinemia. The diagnosis of an affected child was confirmed by enzyme assay and 3H-biotin labelling of proteins in cultured fetal skin fibroblasts. Suff...

journal_title：Prenatal diagnosis

authors： Robinson BH,Toone JR,Benedict RP,Dimmick JE,Oei J,Applegarth DA

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To determine the impact on maternal anxiety of detecting a soft marker, and the association between anxiety and the information given during the scan. METHODS:Routine 20-week fetal anomaly scans were audiotaped in the obstetric ultrasound unit of a London teaching hospital, across a four month study period....

journal_title：Prenatal diagnosis

authors： Watson MS,Hall S,Langford K,Marteau TM

更新日期：2002-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fetal and neonatal alloimmune thrombocytopenia (FNAIT) is a potentially devastating condition, which may lead to intracranial haemorrhage (ICH) in the fetus or neonate, often with death or major neurological damage as consequence. In the absence of screening, preventive measures are only possible in the next pregnancy...

journal_title：Prenatal diagnosis

authors： Kamphuis MM,Oepkes D

更新日期：2011-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Whole genome array testing not only provides an increased diagnostic yield of pathogenic causative findings, but it may also reveal so called susceptibility loci (SL) for neurodevelopmental disorders. The goal of this study was to evaluate the pregnancy outcomes in SL cases and to establish a protocol for pr...

journal_title：Prenatal diagnosis

authors： Govaerts L,Srebniak M,Diderich K,Joosten M,Riedijk S,Knapen M,Go A,Papatsonis D,de Graaf K,Toolenaar T,van der Steen S,Huijbregts G,Knijnenburg J,de Vries F,Van Opstal D,Galjaard RJ

更新日期：2017-01-01 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：:The articles collected together in this issue describe first-trimester screening for a variety of complications. With the advance of both technology and research, early pregnancy screening is becoming ever more sophisticated and complex. While there are clear benefits to most women receiving early reassurance that the...

journal_title：Prenatal diagnosis

authors： Fisher J

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A number of different models of CF carrier screening have now been tested in pilot trials. Apart from opportunistic and cascade testing (which are strictly speaking not true forms of screening), the major programmes have been directed either to young adults in primary care or to pregnant women in antenatal clinics. On...

journal_title：Prenatal diagnosis

authors： Brock DJ

更新日期：1994-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Circulating placental [human chorionic gonadotrophin (hCG), Schwangerschafts protein 1 (SP1), pregnancy-associated plasma protein A (PAPP-A), decidual (pregnancy protein 12 (PP12), and fetal alphafetoprotein (AFP)] proteins were measured immediately before and within 1 h in 18 women undergoing diagnostic chorionic vil...

journal_title：Prenatal diagnosis

authors： Stabile I,Warren R,Rodeck C,Grudzinskas JG

更新日期：1988-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The objective of this study was to determine the contribution of uterine (UtA) and umbilical arteries (UA) Doppler examination at 28 weeks to predict adverse pregnancy outcomes in women who had increased resistance in UtA in the early second trimester. METHODS:Women with UtA mean pulsatility index (PI) above...

journal_title：Prenatal diagnosis

authors： Ventura W,De Paco Matallana C,Prieto-Sanchez MT,Macizo MI,Pertegal M,Nieto A,Delgado JL

更新日期：2015-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Enrichment of circulating trophoblasts (CTs) from maternal blood at week 11-13 of gestation, using laminar microscale vortices, and evaluation of the performance of the VTX-1 Liquid Biopsy System in terms of CT recovery and purity. METHOD:Eight mililiter of blood was collected from 15 pregnant women and proc...

journal_title：Prenatal diagnosis

authors： Vander Plaetsen AS,Weymaere J,Tytgat O,Buyle M,Deforce D,Van Nieuwerburgh F

更新日期：2021-01-12 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To present a series of cases with a sonographic thick and heterogeneous placenta, and to review the literature. METHODS:A series of 16 cases were analyzed. A heterogeneous placenta was defined as a thick placenta with a patchy decrease of echogenicity, which quivered like jelly to sharp abdominal pressure. A...

journal_title：Prenatal diagnosis

authors： Raio L,Ghezzi F,Cromi A,Nelle M,Dürig P,Schneider H

更新日期：2004-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To evaluate the screening accuracy for Down syndrome of nuchal translucency (NT) measurement at different crown-rump length (CRL) subgroups along the 10- to 14-week period. METHODS:NT was classified 'enlarged' if greater than or equal to 1.5 and 2.0 multiples of the regressed median. Accuracies for Down syn...

journal_title：Prenatal diagnosis

authors： Zoppi MA,Ibba RM,Floris M,Manca F,Axiana C,Monni G

更新日期：2005-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to gain more insight into the association between alpha-fetoprotein (AFP) and fetal chromosomal disorders, especially Down's syndrome, we measured AFP in fetal serum, amniotic fluid, and maternal serum at cordocentesis. We compared the concentration and gradient of AFP in these three compartments. Our data co...

journal_title：Prenatal diagnosis

authors： Van Lith JM,Beekhuis JR,Van Loon AJ,Mantingh A,De Wolf BT,Breed AS

更新日期：1991-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To develop a model for the prediction of gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) from maternal characteristics and biochemical markers at 11 to 13 weeks' gestation. METHODS:A prospective screening study on early prediction of pregnancy complications (n = 11, 464), including 297 (2.6%) cases of GDM was used to cr...

journal_title：Prenatal diagnosis

authors： Nanda S,Savvidou M,Syngelaki A,Akolekar R,Nicolaides KH

更新日期：2011-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To present the prenatal diagnosis of a fetus of mos46,X,del(Y)(q11.2)/45,X by cytogenetic and molecular analysis. CASE AND METHODS:A 35-year-old pregnant woman came to our hospital for amniocentesis, and fetal chromosomal aberrations with mos46,X, + mar/45,X were found. Fluorescence in situ hybridization re...

journal_title：Prenatal diagnosis

authors： Hwa HL,Ko TM,Chang YY,Huang CH,Su YN,Tseng LH,Hsieh FJ

更新日期：2004-02-01 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：:Fetomaternal haemorrhage (FMH) was studied after 46 cordocenteses. alpha-Fetoprotein (AFP) concentration and Kleihauer staining of maternal blood, taken both before and after the procedure, revealed increases in AFP values of more than 40 per cent in 30 per cent of the patients examined; fetal haemorrhage of more than...

journal_title：Prenatal diagnosis

authors： Van Selm M,Kanhai HH,Van Loon AJ

更新日期：1995-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Prenatal diagnosis of Sandhoff disease (infantile onset) at 16 weeks gestation has been made by detection and analysis of N-acetylglucosaminyl-oligosaccharides in amniotic fluid using high performance liquid chromatography. The elution profile for the branched chain oligosaccharides was identical with that obtained wi...

journal_title：Prenatal diagnosis

authors： Warner TG,Turner MW,Toone JR,Applegarth D

更新日期：1986-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report a case of a fetal haemangioblastoma located in the cerebellopontine angle. On prenatal ultrasonographic examination a hyperechogenic and heterogeneous mass with a major vascularization on colour Doppler imaging was observed. It increased progressively and laminated the cerebellum. A neoplastic tumour was sus...

journal_title：Prenatal diagnosis

authors： Diguet A,Laquerrière A,Eurin D,Chanavaz-Lacheray I,Magdeleine Ruchoux M,Rossi A,Marpeau L

更新日期：2002-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Reverse chromosome painting has become a powerful tool in clinical genetics for the characterization of cytogenetically unclassifiable aberrations. In this report, the application of a sensitive and rapid procedure for the complete and precise identification of four different de novo structural chromosome abnormalitie...

journal_title：Prenatal diagnosis

authors： Müller-Navia J,Nebel A,Oehler D,Theile U,Zabel B,Schleiermacher E

更新日期：1996-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report on the prenatal diagnosis of ring chromosome 15 in a fetus with increased nuchal fold and intrauterine growth restriction (IUGR). A 27-year-old woman gravida 2, para 1 had normal maternal serum screen tests in the early second trimester of the index pregnancy. Fetal nuchal fold thickening up to 8 mm was inci...

journal_title：Prenatal diagnosis

authors： Liu YH,Chang SD,Chen FP

更新日期：2001-12-01 00:00:00