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Article: NEW PRENATAL TEST OFFERS EARLIER RESULTS THAN AMNIOCENTESIS.(Show)
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- Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)
- Article date:
- February 11, 1990
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Byline: Robin Lichtenstein Newhouse
Hilary Brown of Franklin Township, N.J., was visibly pregnant and feeling her fetus move and kick when she learned the results of her amniocentesis, a surgical test for birth defects.
Four years later, in her second pregnancy, the prenatal test results came while Brown was still in her first trimester and barely aware of the developing life in her womb.
The reason for the quicker results the second time around is a relatively new procedure called chorionic villus sampling, or CVS.
Like amniocentesis, CVS can tell whether a fetus will be born mentally retarded because it has an extra chromosome or ...