PRO & CON.(Brief Article)

Family Practice News;  February 1, 2001 ;     700+ words ......based on maternal serum screening results, not maternal age? Dr. James F.X...basis of maternal serum screening results rather than on maternal age. The problem with...favoring maternal serum screening over maternal age as the ...

PRO & CON.

OB GYN News;  February 1, 2001 ;     700+ words ......basis of maternal serum screening results, not maternal age? YES The current...basis of maternal serum screening results rather than on maternal age. The problem with...favoring maternal serum screening over maternal age as the ...

New screening method for Down's syndrome questioned

Community Practitioner;  August 1, 2002 ;     360 words ......screening * screening by maternal age (35 years or more...districts that used serum screening detected 57 % of cases, those using maternal age plus serum or nuchal...and those using a maternal age of 35 or more and...introduce universal serum screening ...

Ultrasound + Serum Screening Provide 97% Sensitivity for Detection of Down...

Family Practice News;  April 1, 2001 ;     517 words ......ultrasound plus maternal serum screening in women 35 and...women of advanced maternal age who had a fetus...women, 42 also had a maternal serum screen performed...positive, giving serum screening a sensitivity of...risk because of the maternal serum ...

Combo Screen 98% Sensitive for Down Syndrome.

OB GYN News;  April 15, 2001 ;     487 words ......plus maternal serum screening in women 35 and...women of advanced maternal age who had a fetus...positive, giving serum screening a sensitivity...the 42 advanced maternal age women, the overall...sensitivity of age, serum screen, and genetic...not advanced ...

Study throws doubt on test for Down's

The Scotsman;  March 3, 2000 ;     601 words ......study suggests that serum screening, sometimes known as...evidence. Since 1992, serum screening has been widely accepted...causing miscarriage. Serum testing was supported...advantage was that serum testing, on the basis...Howe of the Wessex Maternal and Foetal Medicine...that ...

Down Syndrome: Prenatal Risk Assessment and Diagnosis.

American Family Physician;  August 15, 2000 ;     700+ words ......directly related to maternal age. All forms of...offered maternal serum screening at 16 to 18 weeks...specificity of maternal serum screening. (Am Fam Physician...Assessment ADVANCED MATERNAL AGE The incidence...By convention, maternal age ...

Placental growth hormone in Down's syndrome screening

Journal of Maternal - Fetal & Neonatal Medicine;  October 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ......been the gold standard in second-trimester serum screening for Down's syndrome. Among them, human...proposed because of its significantly elevated serum levels in pregnancies affected by chromosomal aneuploidies. Our experience, on maternal serum stored from 32 Down's ...

Patients who have had invasive procedures more open to carrier...

OB GYN News;  May 1, 2005 ;     325 words ......patients referred because of maternal age and those with a positive maternal serum screening, Ms. Cronister said. The study...22-month period because of maternal age, positive maternal serum screening, chemical exposure, or parental...

Serum screening strategies to sidestep lawsuits. (Don't Forget the...

OB GYN News;  February 15, 2002 ;     523 words ......reasons for lawsuits concerning maternal serum screening are all preventable, Dr. Aubrey Milunsky...physicians fail to offer maternal serum screening. I promise you, you're dead in the...their risk with regard to maternal serum screening. While some steps may seem obvious...

FETAL NUCHAL TRANSLUCENCY THICKNESS

Genetic Counseling;  January 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ......for screening by maternal age and 65% for screening by maternal serum triple test, the detection...translucency combined with maternal age was 75% and this could...combination with maternal serum screening (serum B-human chorionic...Nuchal translucency - ...

Effect of Maternal Age on Milk Production Traits, Fertility, and Longevity...

Journal of Dairy Science;  July 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ......born by older dams increases. A higher maternal age might have negative effects on the performance...study was to investigate the effect of maternal age on production (energy-corrected milk...milk production, fertility, longevity, maternal age) Abbreviation key: ECM = ...

Sonographer's skill key to efficacy of nuchal translucency test. (Combine...

OB GYN News;  September 15, 2002 ;     700+ words ......should be combined with maternal serum screening followed by invasive...fold thickness, and maternal age, obtained similar...with a combination of serum screening and NT screening suggested...for NT screening and maternal age was 18%. The screen...was combined ...

Is Delayed Childbearing Changing Gene Frequencies in Western Populations?

Human Biology;  August 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ......1 diabetes. We reason that advanced maternal age may influence intrauterine selection...have investigated the relationship of maternal age to HP genotype and PGM1-Rh area (chromosome...the HP 2,2 phenotype increases with maternal age. The proportion of phenotypes carrying...

New blood test improves antenatal screening for Down's syndrome.(Research)

Reproductive Health Matters;  November 1, 2003 ;     285 words ......indicators can be used in assessing that risk; maternal age is a key determinant along with ultrasound...false positives. So, for example, if using maternal age alone is compared with using maternal age plus AFP/ HCG/uE3, the detection rate increases...