Three hundred and fifty pregnancies were monitored by transabdominal amniocentesis in the fourteenth to sixteenth week of gestation followed by karyotyping or biochemica assays of cultured amniotic fluid cells and analysis of alpha-fetoprotein in the amniotic fluid supernatant. The pregnancy was interrupted in 36 cases (10%) either becasue of a fetal abnormality or the presence of a male fetus ...

Introduction This study is an effort to diagnose breast cancer by processing the quantitative and qualitative information obtained from medical infrared imaging. The medical infrared imaging is free from any harmful radiation and it is one of the best advantages of the proposed method. By analyzing this information, the best diagnostic parameters among the available parameters are selected and ...

The European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology (ESHRE) Ethics Task Force sets out a recommended multidisciplinary approach to the application of preimplantation genetic diagnosis (PGD). The statement includes consideration of fundamental ethical principles, specific problems in cases of high genetic risk, and PGD for aneuploidy screening, HLA typing and sex selection for non-medical ...

Preimplantation genetic diagnosis (PGD) was • fi rst applied in 1988 using a polymerase chain reaction (PCR) protocol to amplify a sequence on the Y chromosome for embryo sexing for patients carrying X-linked disease. Patients have to go through in vitro • fertilization (IVF) so that their embryos may be generated in vitro. Cells are removed from oocytes or embryos and used for the genetic diag...