Chorionic villus sampling is a prenatal diagnostic test performed for prenatal genetic testing involving a biopsy of placental tissue between 10 to 13 weeks gestation. The tissue harvested is the ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Testing for genetic defects early in pregnancy through chorionic villus sampling, or CVS, does not appear to raise the risk of fetal loss. CVS involves using a needle to ...

Three months into her pregnancy, the woman in my office worried that her fetus might have Down syndrome. She wanted a definitive diagnosis, so I referred her to a doctor who inserted a 3 1/2-inch ...

Our team of maternal-fetal medicine specialists and prenatal genetic counselors have extensive training and experience in prenatal genetic testing. Providers throughout the Mountain West regularly ...

Genetic services in the UK have developed over many years to a highly integrated network of diagnostic testing and clinical counselling. The services have been organised and funded on a regional basis ...

Registration of prenatal diagnostic (PND) procedures, abnormal and ambiguous diagnoses, and outcome of pregnancy is of importance to genetic centres as well as policy-makers. In European countries, ...

A study of more than 64,000 pregnant women has found that miscarriage rates following amniocentesis and chorionic villus sampling were 1.4 percent and 1.9 percent, respectively. The research also ...

As with amniocentesis, obstetricians may suggest using CVS, short for chorionic villus sampling, to detect genetic disorders such as Down Syndrome. In CVS, specialists perform an ultrasound to ...