Our recent study entitled, “Expanding the scope of noninvasive prenatal testing: detection of fetal microdeletion syndromes” by Wapner et al, demonstrated that single-nucleotide polymorphism-based noninvasive prenatal testing had high sensitivity and…
I presume this article was published to inform obstetricians about the performance of the Panorama noninvasive prenatal screening test (NIPT) sold by Natera. As a practicing obstetrician, I have been…
Objective In the near future, the spread of noninvasive prenatal testing will drastically decrease the number of invasive diagnostic procedures currently performed to diagnose aneuploidy. Thus, adequate training will be…
In any study, all relevant information needs to be collected and evaluated if the intent is to reach valid conclusions. In this study, to conclude that inappropriate surgeries were performed,…
A 39-year-old woman with a history of 1 spontaneous vaginal delivery at term presented to our unit with a 5-year history of irregular menstruation and vaginal bleeding. Her history included…
Objective Amniotic fluid specimens are commonly frozen and stored for research purposes. A previous study examined the stability of certain cytokines in stored amniotic fluid samples for prolonged periods of…
Objective Data from the international literature suggest that there may be an association between maternal human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection and vasculoplacental complications during pregnancy. Studies on this subject have…
