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：:We encountered a fetus who exhibited transient (at most 30 s), repeated episodes of tachyarrhythmia (240 bpm). This female neonate was born at 36 weeks of gestation and showed a markedly prolonged QT interval and transient, repeated episodes of polymorphic ventricular tachycardia. Congenital long QT syndrome was diagn...

journal_title：Prenatal diagnosis

authors： Ohkuchi A,Shiraishi H,Minakami H,Eguchi Y,Izumi A,Sato I

更新日期：1999-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:FISH analysis of uncultured interphase amniotic fluid cells from a male fetus revealed two signals using an alpha-satellite X-chromosome DNA probe. One of the signals was much smaller than the other. It was subsequently shown that the normal sized signal was located on the X chromosome and the smaller signal was locat...

journal_title：Prenatal diagnosis

authors： Winsor EJ,Dyack S,Wood-Burgess EM,Ryan G

更新日期：1999-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Distal 10q trisomy is a well-defined but rare syndrome. Most cases are diagnosed in infancy or in childhood and rarely include prenatal findings. We present a case of fetal distal 10q trisomy with abnormal prenatal sonographic findings. A 19-year-old primigravida was referred for genetic counselling at 18 gestational ...

journal_title：Prenatal diagnosis

authors： Chen CP,Shih JC,Lee CC,Chen LF,Wang W,Wang TY

更新日期：1999-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of the present study was to report the findings in 14 women with extremely high risk ('precious') pregnancies, 5 of whom had twins, who underwent elective third-trimester cytogenetic amniocentesis. There were no procedure-related complications, and all newborns weighed more than 2000 g and showed normal develo...

journal_title：Prenatal diagnosis

authors： Shalev J,Meizner I,Rabinerson D,Mashiach R,Peleg D,Orvieto R,Levi T,Ben-Rafael Z

更新日期：1999-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 45-year-old woman underwent serial ultrasound screening procedures during late first and second trimesters of pregnancy for advanced maternal age. Cultured amniocytes karyotype indicated full trisomy 21. Subsequently, the fetus developed congenital cataract diagnosed at 24 weeks. This is the first antenatal diagnosi...

journal_title：Prenatal diagnosis

authors： Romain M,Awoust J,Dugauquier C,Van Maldergem L

更新日期：1999-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Seeking to optimize a novel method of isolating rare fetal erythroid cells in cultures from maternal blood, we have explored the effects of serum supplement on fetal and adult erythropoiesis. We used flow cytometry and sorting after labelling with antibodies to fetal haemoglobin (HbF) and adult haemoglobin (HbA). In a...

journal_title：Prenatal diagnosis

authors： Bohmer RM,Zhen D,Bianchi DW

更新日期：1999-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe the detection of congenital long QT syndrome in a fetus at 37 weeks' gestation using magnetocardiography (MCG). The prenatal diagnosis was confirmed by standard electrocardiography (ECG) performed after birth. This is the first case report of fetal long QT syndrome detected by MCG. Fetal MCG may be useful ...

journal_title：Prenatal diagnosis

authors： Hamada H,Horigome H,Asaka M,Shigemitsu S,Mitsui T,Kubo T,Kandori A,Tsukada K

更新日期：1999-07-01 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：:We report a fetus with spinal muscular atrophy type I, who presented with an increased nuchal translucency at 13 weeks' gestation. A review of the literature reveals additional cases of spinal muscular atrophy type I associated with increased nuchal translucency and suggests increased nuchal translucency may be an ear...

journal_title：Prenatal diagnosis

authors： Stiller RJ,Lieberson D,Herzlinger R,Siddiqui D,Laifer SA,Whetham JC

更新日期：1999-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The cloning of the RHD gene has made it possible to determine the RhD status of fetuses at risk for haemolytic disease due to RhD iso-immunization using amniotic fluid or chorionic villi-derived DNA and the polymerase chain reaction. However, some Rh haplotypes are associated with false-positive or negative DNA-based ...

journal_title：Prenatal diagnosis

authors： Denomme GA,Akoury H,Sermer M,Kelton JG

更新日期：1999-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A de novo mosaic extra structurally abnormal chromosome (ESAC) was detected in 33 per cent of cultured amniotic fluid cells from a pregnant woman. Neither Q-banding nor fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) employing a DNA probe for nucleolar organizer region demonstrated the presence of satellites on the ESAC. Sp...

journal_title：Prenatal diagnosis

authors： Ning Y,Laundon CH,Schröck E,Buchanan P,Ried T

更新日期：1999-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Variable results have been reported using urine beta-core fragment as a marker for fetal Down syndrome. Initial studies by Cuckle et al. (1994) and Canick et al. (1995) indicated that beta-core fragment was an outstanding marker, detecting >80 per cent of Down syndrome cases. Since these reports, widely varying result...

journal_title：Prenatal diagnosis

authors： Cole LA,Rinne KM,Mahajan SM,Oz UA,Shahabi S,Mahoney MJ,Bahado-Singh RO

更新日期：1999-04-01 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：:Trophoblast cells can be detected in maternal blood during normal human pregnancy and DNA from these cells may be used for non-invasive prenatal diagnosis of inherited diseases. The possibility of enriching trophoblast cells from maternal blood samples using a monoclonal antibody (LK26) against a folate-binding protei...

journal_title：Prenatal diagnosis

authors： Hviid TV,Sørensen S,Morling N

更新日期：1999-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Between February 1994 and February 1997 a group of 881 women completed a questionnaire on the use of folic acid. During the study period the percentage of women who had been informed about the benefits of folic acid rose from 41 per cent to 90 per cent and the percentage taking supplementation rose from 18 per cent to...

journal_title：Prenatal diagnosis

authors： Brandenburg H,Traas MA,Laudy J,Ursem N,Westerveld AM,Wladimiroff JW

更新日期：1999-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Based on the presence of immature cells in fetal blood, and in an attempt to shorten the cytogenetic reporting time, three simultaneous one-day culture regimes were established in 23 fetal blood samples: (a) the standard phytohemagglutinin (PHA)-stimulated lymphocytes culture, (b) a culture using the granulocyte-macro...

journal_title：Prenatal diagnosis

authors： Costa D,Borrell A,Jou JM,Besón I,Soler A,Carrió A,Margarit E,Caballín R,Ballesta F,Fortuny A

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tyrosinaemia type I is caused by a deficiency of fumarylacetoacetate hydrolase and mainly affects the liver. This disease is characterized by the presence of a high level of succinylacetone. This metabolite has been used for prenatal diagnosis from amniotic fluid samples. One case with a normal level of succinylaceton...

journal_title：Prenatal diagnosis

authors： Poudrier J,Lettre F,St-Louis M,Tanguay RM

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Following the birth of a baby girl confirmed to be homozygous normal for the delta F508 deletion causing cystic fibrosis (CF), many single-gene defects have been diagnosed by polymerase chain reaction (PCR) for preimplantation genetic diagnosis (PGD). A few misdiagnoses have been reported but no large-scale studies ha...

journal_title：Prenatal diagnosis

authors： Ray PF,Ao A,Taylor DM,Winston RM,Handyside AH

更新日期：1998-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Exomphalos affects approximately 3 in 10,000 births and can arise from a number of developmental insults. The clinical outcome is dependent upon the associated structural and chromosomal anomalies and the gestation at delivery. Accurate antenatal ultrasound diagnosis and karyotyping are important and allow informed pr...

journal_title：Prenatal diagnosis

authors： Kilby MD,Lander A,Usher-Somers M

更新日期：1998-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Calcification of the heart and vessels in fetuses is a rare condition. It may be dystrophic or metastatic. An extremely rare form of vascular calcification has been termed 'idiopathic arterial calcification of infancy', which is inherited in an autosomal recessive pattern. We report four cases of myocardial calcificat...

journal_title：Prenatal diagnosis

authors： Hajdu J,Marton T,Papp C,Hruby E,Papp Z

更新日期：1998-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have developed a two-colour immunocytochemical staining method for the detection of fetal and embryonic haemoglobin in erythroid cells. The method was applied to study these haemoglobin types in fetal red cells. Specimens from fetal blood (10 weeks), cord blood and fetal liver (14 weeks) as well as chorionic villus...

journal_title：Prenatal diagnosis

authors： Mesker WE,Ouwerkerk-van Velzen MC,Oosterwijk JC,Bernini LF,Golbus MS,Kanhai HH,Van Ommen GJ,Tanke HJ

更新日期：1998-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We present a case of congenital listeriosis in a twin pregnancy. Presentation was prompted by decreased fetal movements and an ultrasound examination which demonstrated features similar to those observed in an adult with inflammatory conditions of the bowel, namely, small amounts of ascites, dilated loops of bowel and...

journal_title：Prenatal diagnosis

authors： Quinlivan JA,Newnham JP,Dickinson JE

更新日期：1998-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Reversed end-diastolic umbilical artery velocities and a reduced chorionic sac were first seen at 10 weeks in a pregnancy subsequently showing a normal male karyotype on chorionic villi. Four weeks later Doppler studies demonstrated normal umbilical artery waveforms. At 20 weeks, ultrasound examination of the fetus re...

journal_title：Prenatal diagnosis

authors： Borrell A,Costa D,Martinez JM,Farré MT,Palacio M,Mortera C,Fortuny A

更新日期：1998-10-01 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

abstract：:To evaluate the potential utility of free beta (hCG) and beta-core (hCG) in a prenatal screening protocol for Down syndrome we analysed these markers in dried maternal urine specimens from 163 control, 13 Down syndrome and 5 trisomy 18 pregnancies from 8 to 25 weeks' gestation. All results are reported after normaliza...

journal_title：Prenatal diagnosis

authors： Hallahan TW,Krantz DA,Tului L,Alberti E,Buchanan PD,Orlandi F,Klein V,Larsen JW Jr,Macri JN

更新日期：1998-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recently we identified a P408S, P415L allele of beta-glucuronidase in several Mexican patients with mucopolysaccharidosis type VII (Sly syndrome) and presented evidence that both mutations are required to produce the MPS VII allele (Islam et al., 1996). In an attempt to determine whether either of these mutations exis...

journal_title：Prenatal diagnosis

authors： Rafiqul Islam M,Gallegos Arreola MP,Wong P,Tomatsu S,Corona JS,Sly WS

更新日期：1998-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two pregnancies at risk for the carbohydrate-deficient glycoprotein syndrome Type 1A (CDG1A, phosphomannomutase deficient) were monitored by enzyme and genetic linkage analyses. The index case in both families had a proven deficiency of phosphomannomutase (PMM). An unaffected fetus was predicted in family 1 following ...

journal_title：Prenatal diagnosis

authors： Charlwood J,Clayton P,Keir G,Mian N,Young E,Winchester B

更新日期：1998-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of the present study was to determine the postnatal outcome and prognostic factors of prenatally diagnosed ventriculomegaly, and to establish the relationship between prenatal sonographic measurements and postnatal psychomotor development. A total of 42 singleton pregnancies with sonographically determined...

journal_title：Prenatal diagnosis

authors： den Hollander NS,Vinkesteijn A,Schmitz-van Splunder P,Catsman-Berrevoets CE,Wladimiroff JW

更新日期：1998-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Apert syndrome (AS) is clinically characterized by typical facial features and symmetrical syndactyly of the digits. AS is inherited as an autosomal dominant trait. Recently, a fibroblast growth factor receptors 2 (FGFR2) mutation, either C934G or C937G, was identified in exon IIIa. Our report documents an affected mo...

journal_title：Prenatal diagnosis

authors： Chang CC,Tsai FJ,Tsai HD,Tsai CH,Hseih YY,Lee CC,Yang TC,Wu JY

更新日期：1998-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A (semi-) randomized controlled study with long-term follow-up was conducted to compare the effects of transabdominal chorionic villus sampling and early amniocentesis on fetal mortality and child morbidity. Women requesting early prenatal diagnosis for advanced maternal age were allocated to early amniocentesis or tr...

journal_title：Prenatal diagnosis

authors： Nagel HT,Vandenbussche FP,Keirse MJ,Oepkes D,Oosterwijk JC,Beverstock G,Kanhai HH

更新日期：1998-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent reports suggest an increased incidence of chromosomal abnormalities in pregnancies with amniotic fluid-cell culture failure. We retrospectively reviewed the cytogenetic results of 14,165 amniotic fluid samples processed in our laboratory from 1987 to 1996. Ninety-eight per cent of the samples were obtained befo...

journal_title：Prenatal diagnosis

authors： Lam YH,Tang MH,Sin SY,Ghosh A

更新日期：1998-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report a cryptic translocation ascertained in a family after the birth of a mentally retarded proband. High resolution chromosome examination revealed that the father had a subtle translocation between chromosome 5 and chromosome 13, 46, XY, t(5;13) (q35.2;q34). Two specific, non-routine techniques were associated ...

journal_title：Prenatal diagnosis

authors： Guichet A,Briault S,Moraine C

更新日期：1998-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Published studies have reached varying conclusions as to the benefit of replacing human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG) measurements with the free beta-subunit of hCG (the free beta-subunit) for Down syndrome screening. One study reports 14 per cent higher detection for the free beta-subunit, while another finds an actua...

journal_title：Prenatal diagnosis

authors： Knight GJ,Palomaki GE,Neveux LM,Fodor KK,Haddow JE

更新日期：1998-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We present a prenatal case with a 45,X,dic(Y;15) (q11.23;p11.1) karyotype and describe the inheritance pattern of the chromosome 15s. Chromosome 15 has an imprinted region and inheritance of both chromosome 15 from one parent results in either Angelman syndrome (AS) (paternal inheritance) or Prader Willi syndrome (PWS...

journal_title：Prenatal diagnosis

authors： White LM,Treat K,Leff A,Styers D,Mitchell M,Knoll JH

更新日期：1998-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A mosaic chromosome complement, 46,XY/47,XY,+r(15), was detected at prenatal diagnosis. Family studies showed the mother and one of her two children to have a bisatellited supernumerary marker chromosome (SMC) in all lymphocytes examined. The maternal grandfather also showed a bisatellited SMC, but in only 2 per cent ...

journal_title：Prenatal diagnosis

authors： Adhvaryu SG,Peters-Brown T,Livingston E,Qumsiyeh MB

更新日期：1998-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cervical teratomas are rare tumours which are the result of abnormal prenatal development. They are usually detected at birth, but can occasionally remain silent until adulthood. Obstruction of the airway is the major challenge in the neonatal period. Prenatal diagnosis allows for early consultation with paediatric su...

journal_title：Prenatal diagnosis

authors： Kerner B,Flaum E,Mathews H,Carlson DE,Pepkowitz SH,Hixon H,Graham JM Jr

更新日期：1998-01-01 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：:Levels of beta-core fragment and total oestriol in second-trimester maternal urine samples were measured in 32 Down syndrome pregnancies and 206 control pregnancies. Beta-core fragment and total oestriol values were corrected for the urinary creatinine level and expressed as multiples of the control medians (MOM). In ...

journal_title：Prenatal diagnosis

authors： Kellner LH,Canick JA,Palomaki GE,Neveux LM,Saller DN Jr,Walker RP,Osathanondh R,Bombard AT

更新日期：1997-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study was undertaken in an attempt to determine the significance of elevated maternal serum human chorionic gonadotropin (MShCG), in the presence of an otherwise normal screen with respect to fetal malformations, chromosomal aberrations, and pregnancy outcome. Targeted ultrasound findings and perinatal outcome of...

journal_title：Prenatal diagnosis

authors： Fejgin MD,Kedar I,Amiel A,Ben-Tovim T,Chen R,Petel Y,Tepper R

更新日期：1997-11-01 00:00:00