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Chapter-20 Fetal Aneuploidy Screening

BOOK TITLE: Manual of Genetics Fetal Medicine and Color Doppler

Author
1. Ratha Chinmayee
ISBN
9789352703746
DOI
10.5005/jp/books/18023_21
Edition
1/e
Publishing Year
2018
Pages
9
Author Affiliations
1. Fetal Medicine, Resolution Fetal Care Centre, Navodaya Hospitals Hyderabad, Telangana, India, Resolution Fetal Medicine Centre, Hyderabad; Yashoda Hospital, Hyderabad, Telangana, India, Centre, Hyderabad; onsultant, Resolution Fetal Medicine Centre and Research Institute, Hyderabad, Telangana, India, Resolution Fetal Care Centre, Navodaya, Hospitals, Hyderabad, Telangana, India
Chapter keywords
Screening, first-trimester combined screening test, first-trimester screening blood test, second-trimester maternal serum biochemistry, quadruple test, noninvasive prenatal test, fetal chromosomal problem

Abstract

Screening is a process of picking up people from a normal population group who are at apparently “high risk” for any condition. So, the results of a screening test are “screen positive”, i.e. “high risk” for a condition or “screen negative”, i.e. “low risk”, which indicates low probability of having that condition. A screening test helps in optimizing the need for invasive testing while increasing the pick-up rate for fetal chromosomal problems (aneuploidies). This chapter covers the first-trimester combined screening test, first-trimester screening blood test, second-trimester maternal serum biochemistry (quadruple test), and noninvasive prenatal testing—cell-free fetal DNA in maternal blood.

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