Antenatal screening for Down's syndrome.
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Chorionic Gonadotropin↗
Biomedical subjects
N Leporrier
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Shift of the fetal sex ratio in hCG selected pregnancies at risk for Down syndrome.
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Screening for fetal Down syndrome with maternal serum hCG and oestriol: a prospective study.
We report the preliminary results of a prospective study aimed at evaluating the effectiveness of Down syndrome (DS) screening using second-trimester measurement of maternal serum human chorionic gonadotrophin (hCG) and unconjugated oestriol (uE3) together with maternal age. Reference values for hCG, uE3, and the hCG/uE3 ratio in normal pregnancies were established from more than 3000 normal gestations and found to follow a log-normal statistical distribution. Risk evaluation was made using reference values for affected pregnancies from retrospective studies. Screening of 10,000 women under 38 years resulted in 412 amniocenteses and the prenatal diagnosis of six cases of DS, whereas four cases remained undetected until term. In a parallel study, diagnostic amniocentesis was performed in women over 38 years and in women with a previous affected child, and an evaluation of the risk of fetal DS based on serum hCG and uE3 levels was made in all cases. Fourteen cases of DS were detected. Median values for hCG and uE3 in the 24 affected pregnancies were close to the 90th and tenth centiles of the normal reference values, respectively, and thus are in good agreement with the values reported by others in retrospective studies.
Adult↗
Prenatal diagnosis of a mosaic 46,XY/47,X,i(Xq)Y.
A case of mosaic 46,XY/47,X,i(Xq)Y is diagnosed at 18 gestational weeks in amniotic fluid cells and confirmed at birth in the lymphocytes of the child. The literature on Klinefelter's syndromes with structural chromosome X rearrangements is reviewed. This is the first case reported of a mosaic isochromosome Xq in a boy.
Amniocentesis↗
[Balanced translocations with abnormal phenotype (author's transl)].
Four cases of balanced translocations with phenotype abnormalities are reported. Three of them are reciprocal translocation, one is a Robertsonnian translocation. The consequences of the phenomene on genetic counselling and prenatal diagnosis are discussed.
Abnormalities, Multiple↗