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 ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio -- A new type of noninvasive prenatal test is becoming more readily available for pregnant women to find out if they are at risk of giving birth to a baby with a chromosomal ...

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 ...

Researchers in the Netherlands believe they are on the verge of developing a simple, prenatal blood test that would be able to detect accurately chromosomal abnormalities in the developing fetus. At ...

Bhopal (Madhya Pradesh): In a significant medical milestone, the Obstetrics and Gynecology Department at AIIMS Bhopal successfully performed its first Chorionic Villus Sampling (CVS) procedure on ...

Both tests can tell whether there are genetic defects in a developing baby, although nothing can be done to correct those defects. The decision to offer the tests to women beginning at age 35 is ...

Yury Verlinsky, the Russian emigré who was the first researcher in the United States to perform chorionic villus sampling to detect birth defects and who pioneered the development of pre-implantation ...

The mean maternal age at first birth has been increasing in the United States in recent years, from 24.9 years in 2000 to 27 years in 2019, according to two CDC reports. As the mean maternal age ...

A research team from Odense University Hospital and the University of Southern Denmark has developed an innovative screening test. With a blood sample from the expectant mother, they can scrutinize ...

DNA analysis of tissue archived from dilation and curettage (D&C) procedures after miscarriage can identify chromosomal abnormalities that might have caused the pregnancy loss, according to a study ...