Prenatal Diagnosis in Obstetric Practice

Obstetric outcome after prenatal diagnosis in pregnancies obtained after intracytoplasmic sperm injection.

In this study we compared the pregnancy outcome of 576 pregnancies after prenatal diagnosis with that of 540 pregnancies without prenatal diagnosis in our microinjection programme. Amniocentesis was suggested for singleton pregnancies (n = 465) and chorionic villus sampling (CVS) was proposed for twin pregnancies (n = 111 pregnancies, 222 fetuses). A total of 365 patients with singleton pregnan...

Obstetric audit in general practice.

Many recent papers have tried to show how inadvisable it is for general practitioners to undertake obstetric care and more especially obstetric deliveries.1-3 The high proportion of artificially induced labours, the enthusiasm for the increasing "mechanisation" of labour, descriptions of unexpected and sinister disease that the inexperienced obstetrician would not detect have all made general p...

ISUOG Practice Guidelines: invasive procedures for prenatal diagnosis.

The International Society of Ultrasound in Obstetrics and Gynecology (ISUOG) is a scientific organization that encourages sound clinical practice, and high-quality teaching and research related to diagnostic imaging in women’s healthcare. The ISUOG Clinical Standards Committee (CSC) has a remit to develop Practice Guidelines and Consensus Statements that provide healthcare practitioners with a ...

prenatal diagnosis in organic acidemia

organic acidemias are the group of metabolic disorders which define by high anion gap metabolic acidosis, hypo or hyperglycemia & hyperammonemia.because of the severity of disease in children and its fatality in severe form of disease and also need for life long treatment, prenatal diagnosis is an important diagnostic tool.three approaches to prenatal diagnosis may be possible, including measur...

Obstetric Therapeutics; Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics in Obstetric Practice