An unusual tricentric X chromosome detected prenatally.

abstract：:The relationship between first-trimester maternal serum Schwangerschafts protein 1 (SP1) and the karyotype of the pregnancy was examined in 692 women who underwent chorionic villus biopsy at 6-12 weeks. There were 30 pregnancies with abnormal karyotypes, consisting of 14 Down's syndrome (DS), eight trisomy 18, and eig...

journal_title：Prenatal diagnosis

authors： MacIntosh MC,Brambati B,Chard T,Grudzinskas JG

更新日期：1993-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To evaluate the algorithms of risk assessment for Down syndrome (DS). METHODS:Cohort study conducted in women at risk undergoing midtrimester genetic sonogram. Univariate and logistic regression analysis were used to relate findings to the occurrence of DS. The resulting model was validated in an independent...

journal_title：Prenatal diagnosis

authors： Vergani P,Ghidini A,Weiner S,Locatelli A,Pozzi E,Biffi A

更新日期：2008-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The study aims to describe our two-dimensional (2D) ultrasound approach to visualize the fetal secondary palate and plot its growth curve and to describe and demonstrate its clinical implementation. METHODS:This is a two parts retrospective study. First, we measured the antero-posterior length of the bony se...

journal_title：Prenatal diagnosis

authors： Brusilov M,Wolman I,Ashwal E,Malinger G,Birnbaum R

更新日期：2018-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An unusual case of apical diverticulum complicated by serous pericardial effusion and diagnosed ultrasonographically at 13 weeks of gestation is described. A therapeutic abortion was induced at 14 weeks and the complete post-mortem examination did not show additional malformation. Cardiac diverticulum is a rare malfor...

journal_title：Prenatal diagnosis

authors： Carles D,Maugey-Laulom B,Habboud H,Alberti EM,Weichhold W,Léger F

更新日期：1995-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The purpose of this study was to investigate the clinical value of velocity vector imaging (VVI) in the assessment of normal fetal regional myocardial performance and to establish a normative data set for normal Chinese fetuses. METHODS:One hundred and fifty-one healthy Chinese fetuses were divided into five...

journal_title：Prenatal diagnosis

authors： Peng QH,Zhou QC,Zeng S,Tian LQ,Zhang M,Tan Y,Pu DR

更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To assess the effect of early vaginal bleeding on first-trimester markers for Down syndrome. METHODS:A retrospective study was conducted on 2330 normal singleton fetuses who underwent first-trimester combined screening for Down syndrome based on ultrasound and maternal serum markers. Fetal nuchal translucen...

journal_title：Prenatal diagnosis

authors： De Biasio P,Canini S,Crovo A,Prefumo F,Venturini PL

更新日期：2003-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The objective of the study is to examine the incidence of chromosomal or genetic abnormalities in pregnancies complicated by polyhydramnios and to assess the value of prenatal ultrasound findings in the prediction of cases associated with such disorders. METHODS:We searched the prenatal records of all patien...

journal_title：Prenatal diagnosis

authors： Boito S,Crovetto F,Ischia B,Crippa BL,Fabietti I,Bedeschi MF,Lalatta F,Colombo L,Mosca F,Fedele L,Persico N

更新日期：2016-08-01 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：:Most of cystic fibrosis (CF) pre-implantation genetic diagnosis (PGD) cases described to date are limited to the detection of DeltaF508. Beside this predominant mutation, over 1000 mutations have been identified, rendering the development of a mutation-based PGD protocol impracticable. This is the reason why we, as we...

journal_title：Prenatal diagnosis

authors： Moutou C,Gardes N,Viville S

更新日期：2004-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To evaluate the utility of determining the presence/absence of nasal bone in a low-risk fetal population. METHODS:Prospective study of the presence/absence of nasal bone among 1800 consecutive unselected fetuses, with complete follow-up of results. RESULTS:An adequate sonographic evaluation of nasal bone wa...

journal_title：Prenatal diagnosis

authors： Ramos-Corpas D,Santiago JC,Montoya F

更新日期：2006-02-01 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：:A 20-year-old woman with Beckwith-Wiedemann syndrome (BWS) was ultrasonographically appraised at intervals during her pregnancy. Unequivocal evidence for a diagnosis of BWS was obtained in the fetus and this was confirmed postnatally. Early ultrasound diagnosis enabled appropriate genetic counselling to be given; neon...

journal_title：Prenatal diagnosis

authors： Viljoen DL,Jaquire Z,Woods DL

更新日期：1991-03-01 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：: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：:A high resolution technique was applied to amniotic fluid cells by synchronization. After inoculation, the cells were incubated for 30 h in the presence of either thymidine or 5-bromodeoxyuridine (BrdU). After removal of the blocking agent and addition of a low concentration of thymidine, the cells were incubated for ...

journal_title：Prenatal diagnosis

authors： Qu J,Dallaire L,Lemieux N,Drouin R,Richer CL

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Intra-hepatic abnormalities of the fetal umbilical venous system are poorly documented and clinically not well understood. A case of routine ultrasound examination at 23 weeks' gestation demonstrating foci of hepatic hyperechogenicity and cardiomegaly is presented. Colour Doppler detected absence of flow in the ductus...

journal_title：Prenatal diagnosis

authors： Cohen SB,Lipitz S,Mashiach S,Hegesh J,Achiron R

更新日期：1997-10-01 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：:Second trimester amniotic fluid fibrinolytic system was examined in normal pregnancies and those complicated by anencephaly, spina bifida and fetal chromosome abnormalities. No significant difference was demonstrated between the fibrinolytic systems from normal pregnancies and those complicated by fetal chromosome abn...

journal_title：Prenatal diagnosis

authors： Legge M

更新日期：1983-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A case of Meckel-Gruber syndrome was diagnosed by embryoscopy at 10 menstrual weeks, allowing for early termination of pregnancy. Post-mortem examination confirmed the presence of polydactyly and bilateral cystic lesions of the mesonephros and metanephros. Both the forming nephrons and the collecting ducts were involv...

journal_title：Prenatal diagnosis

authors： Dumez Y,Dommergues M,Gubler MC,Bunduki V,Narcy F,LeMerrer M,Mandelbrot L,Berkowitz R

更新日期：1994-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effectiveness and costs of prenatal screening programmes for Down's syndrome using maternal serum markers will vary significantly depending on the biological cut-off values chosen in order to select women, at each maternal age, who will be sent for amniocentesis. On the basis of the first French prospective study ...

journal_title：Prenatal diagnosis

authors： Seror V,Muller F,Moatti JP,Le Gales C,Boue A

更新日期：1993-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is an increasing number of reports relating chorionic villus sampling (CVS) to transverse limb reduction defects or the oromandibular limb hypogenesis complex. In addition, a correlation has been established between the severity of the defect and the gestational age when CVS is performed. Several hypotheses have...

journal_title：Prenatal diagnosis

authors： van der Zee DC,Bax KM,Vermeij-Keers C

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Twenty-eight young people with thalassemia major expressed their opinion about prenatal diagnosis. All of them stated that they intended to marry and have children; thirteen of them (46 per cent) said that they would have also accepted a thalassemic carrier as a partner and that if married to a carrier they would have...

journal_title：Prenatal diagnosis

authors： Schilirò G,Romeo MA,Mollica F

更新日期：1988-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report on a case of a female fetus found to be mosaic for Turner syndrome (45,X) and trisomy X (47,XXX). Chromosomal microarray analysis (CMA) failed to detect the aneuploidy because of a normal average dosage of the X chromosome. This case represents an unusual instance in which CMA may not detect chromosomal aber...

journal_title：Prenatal diagnosis

authors： Markus-Bustani K,Yaron Y,Goldstein M,Orr-Urtreger A,Ben-Shachar S

更新日期：2012-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Enlargement of the subarachnoid spaces can be seen in the following conditions: communicating hydrocephalus, brain atrophy and benign enlargement of the subarachnoid spaces. These disorders may begin in utero. There are no established normograms for the fetal subarachnoid spaces. This study was conducted in order to d...

journal_title：Prenatal diagnosis

authors： Malinger G,Lerman-Sagie T,Achiron R,Lipitz S

更新日期：2000-11-01 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：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：:Pachyonychia congenita type 1 (PC-1) is an autosomal dominant ectodermal dysplasia characterized by severe nail dystrophy, focal non-epidermolytic palmoplantar keratoderma (FNEPPK) and oral lesions. We have previously shown that mutations in keratin K16 cause fragility of specific epithelia resulting in phenotypes of ...

journal_title：Prenatal diagnosis

authors： Smith FJ,McKusick VA,Nielsen K,Pfendner E,Uitto J,McLean WH

更新日期：1999-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To assess the attitudes of health professionals in Lebanon towards prenatal diagnosis and termination of pregnancy, for a series of genetic, non-genetic and non-medical conditions. METHODS:A total of 158 questionnaires were sent to geneticists, family doctors, pediatricians and obstetricians/gynecologists, ...

journal_title：Prenatal diagnosis

authors： Zahed L,Nabulsi M,Tamim H

更新日期：2002-10-01 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：:Based on 9350 pregnant Japanese women who were screened by serum triple-marker determination, accuracy of predicted risk for Down syndrome was examined using 24 Down syndrome cases detected either prenatally or postnatally. The correlation is statistically very high (r = 0.98) between the predicted risks and the preva...

journal_title：Prenatal diagnosis

authors： Onda T,Tanaka T,Takeda O,Kitagawa M,Kuwabara Y,Yamamoto H,Iinuma K,Shimomura K

更新日期：1998-09-01 00:00:00