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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

This new strategy has been carried out in 131 pregnant women at risk for a fetus with an X-linked genetic disease (Table 1), after they received genetic counseling and gave written informed consent.

A research team has developed an innovative screening test. With a blood sample from the expectant mother, they can scrutinize all the genes in the fetus. The findings indicate that the new test, ...

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 ...

As the first step in prenatal diagnosis of X-linked genetic disorders, chorionic villus sampling (CVS) for fetal sex determination is generally performed at 11–13 weeks of gestation. However, as the ...

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 ...