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Article: Special Feature: Amniocentesis Today-Is It Really A Benign Procedure?
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- OB/GYN Clinical Alert
- Article date:
- May 1, 2008
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Special Feature
Amniocentesis Today—Is It Really A Benign Procedure?
By John C. Hobbins, MD, Professor and Chief of Obstetrics, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, Denver, is Associate Editor for OB/GYN Clinical Alert.
Over the last five years, there has been an increased emphasis on screening for aneuploidy, in part due to the ACOG endorsement of the concept of offering nuchal translucency (NT) and biochemical screening to all pregnant patients, and not just those of advanced maternal age (AMA). During the same time period, the numbers of women who were the original recipients of screening attention, those of AMA, increased ...