Wednesday 13 August 2014

Reasons for prenatal diagnosis

There are three purposes of prenatal diagnosis: (1) to accredit appropriate medical or surgical analysis of a action afore or afterwards birth, (2) to accord the parents the adventitious to arrest a fetus with the diagnosed condition, and (3) to accord parents the adventitious to "prepare" psychologically, socially, FINANCIALLY, and medically for a babyish with a bloom botheration or disability, or for the likelihood of a stillbirth.
Having this advice in beforehand of the bearing agency that healthcare agents as able-bodied as parents can bigger adapt themselves for the supply of a adolescent with a bloom problem. For example, Down Syndrome is associated with cardiac defects that may charge action anon aloft birth.
Many alert parents would like to apperceive the sex of their babyish afore birth. Methods cover amniocentesis with karyotyping, and prenatal ultrasound. In some countries, bloom affliction providers are accepted to abstain this advice from parents, while in added countries they are accepted to accord this information.[citation needed]
Qualifying accident factors[edit]
Because of the abortion and fetal accident risks associated with amniocentesis and CVS procedures, abounding women adopt to aboriginal abide screening so they can acquisition out if the fetus' accident of bearing defects is top abundant to absolve the risks of invasive testing. Since screening tests crop a accident account which represents the adventitious that the babyish has the bearing defect, the a lot of accepted beginning for high-risk is 1:270. A accident account of 1:300 would accordingly be advised low-risk by abounding physicians. However, the accommodation amid accident of bearing birthmark and accident of complications from invasive testing is about and subjective; some parents may adjudge that even a 1:1000 accident of bearing defects warrants an invasive analysis while others wouldn't opt for an invasive analysis even if they had a 1:10 accident score.
ACOG guidelines currently acclaim that all abundant women, behindhand of age, be offered invasive testing to access a absolute analysis of assertive bearing defects. Therefore, a lot of physicians action analytic testing to all their patients, with or after above-mentioned screening and let the accommodating decide.
The afterward are some affidavit why a accommodating ability accede her accident of bearing defects already to be top abundant to accreditation absence screening and traveling beeline for invasive testing.
Women over the age of 35
Women who accept ahead had abortive babies or babies with a bearing defect, abnormally affection or abiogenetic problems
Women who accept top claret pressure, lupus, diabetes, asthma, or epilepsy
Women who accept ancestors histories or indigenous backgrounds decumbent to abiogenetic disorders, or whose ally accept these
Women who are abundant with multiples (twins or more)
Women who accept ahead had miscarriages

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