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There are three purposes of prenatal diagnosis: (1) to enable timely medical or surgical treatment of a condition before or after birth, (2) to give the parents the chance to abort a fetus with the diagnosed condition, and (3) to give parents the chance to prepare psychologically, socially, financially, and medically for a baby with a health problem or disability, or for the likelihood of a ...
In 2007, Bianchi became editor-in-chief of Prenatal Diagnosis, the journal of the International Society for Prenatal Diagnosis. [3] In 2010, she founded the Mother Infant Research Institute at Tufts Medical Center, assuming the position of executive director. [ 4 ]
She is the 2022 president of the International Society for Prenatal Diagnosis. [1] ... British Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology. 101 (1): 29–34.
American Journal of Medical Genetics. 46 (5): 542–50. ... Bui TH, Iselius L, Lindsten J (1984). "European collaborative study on prenatal diagnosis: mosaicism ...
Cell-free fetal DNA (cffDNA) is fetal DNA that circulates freely in the maternal blood.Maternal blood is sampled by venipuncture.Analysis of cffDNA is a method of non-invasive prenatal diagnosis frequently ordered for pregnant women of advanced maternal age.
Maternal–fetal medicine began to emerge as a discipline in the 1960s. Advances in research and technology allowed physicians to diagnose and treat fetal complications in utero, whereas previously, obstetricians could only rely on heart rate monitoring and maternal reports of fetal movement.
Noninvasive prenatal testing (NIPT) is a method used to determine the risk for the fetus being born with certain chromosomal abnormalities, such as trisomy 21, trisomy 18 and trisomy 13. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] This testing analyzes small DNA fragments that circulate in the blood of a pregnant woman. [ 4 ]
She established a practice in 1982 specializing in prenatal ultrasound. [1] Benacerraf pioneered the field of "genetic sonography" [3] with her discovery that nuchal fold thickness–the distance between the occipital bone and the surface of the overlying skin at back of the neck–was a reliable metric for second-trimester diagnosis of Down ...