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 ...

Purpose: Current diagnostic methods for chromosomal abnormalities rely mainly on karyotyping and occasionally fluorescent in situ hybridization or quantitative polymerase chain reaction. We describe ...

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 ...