Your doctor may suggest a test called amniocentesis (or amnio) if your baby has a higher chance of some birth defects. You may also need it if you have signs of an infection or if you may deliver ...

Amniocentesis is a prenatal diagnostic procedure in which a minute amount of amniotic fluid is extracted and tested for chromosomal anomalies in the fetus. The amniotic fluid is the fluid that ...

Amniocentesis (sometimes called "amnio") is a test in which your doctor takes a small sample of amniotic fluid from around your baby. This fluid contains some of your baby’s cells which hold ...

Since amniocentesis was developed in the late 1960s, the use of prenatal testing has changed the practice of obstetrics drastically, has given expectant parents new and sometimes difficult choices ...

"I talked to friends, I spread-sheeted statistics, I lay awake." Instead of amniocentesis, which would require her to wait until 18 to 20 weeks, she chose chorionic villus sampling (CVS ...

Pregnancies complicated by Rh alloimmunization have been evaluated with the use of serial invasive amniocentesis to determine bilirubin levels by measuring in the amniotic fluid the change in ...

Late amniocentesis demonstrates a 22.9% overall genetic diagnostic yield, with 2.4 times higher yield for fetuses with multiple organ system anomalies (36.4%) vs single organ system anomalies (15.3%).

One rainy afternoon a year ago, I sat numbly by the phone, waiting for the hospital midwife to ring and tell me the result of an amniocentesis test, and thus whether my unborn child had Down’s ...

Of the 140 million babies born worldwide each year, 6-8% are at risk for hereditary genetic diseases. Amniocentesis is considered the gold standard for detecting fetal genetic risks with high accuracy ...

However, the risks of CVS are higher in women with twins. CVS can be done early in pregnancy (earlier than amniocentesis), and results are usually obtained within 10 days. Getting this kind of ...

And I cannot picture myself having a baby at a provincial hospital. I have heard that one is usually offered an amniocentesis if one falls pregnant over the age of 35. I've also heard that this ...