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First trimester diagnosis of Inherited Metabolic Disease: Experience in the UK
Author(s) -
Besley G. T. N.,
Young E. P.,
Fensom A. H.,
Cooper A.
Publication year - 1991
Publication title -
journal of inherited metabolic disease
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.462
H-Index - 102
eISSN - 1573-2665
pISSN - 0141-8955
DOI - 10.1007/bf01800583
Subject(s) - chorionic villus sampling , prenatal diagnosis , amniocentesis , first trimester , medicine , disease , chorionic villi , pregnancy , obstetrics , metabolic disease , pediatrics , fetus , biology , pathology , genetics
Summary Experience with first trimester diagnosis of inherited metabolic disease is still limited. In this report, data are collected from four major centres in the UK which provide a prenatal diagnosis service based on specific enzyme or gene product assay. The data were presented at a workshop on ‘First Trimester Diagnosis of Inherited Metabolic Disease’ held at the Institute of Child Health, London, on 21st June 1990. Approximately 100 different metabolic diseases can now be diagnosed in the first trimester, but because of the rarity of many of the disorders, experience of positive diagnoses, based on enzyme deficiency in fresh chorionic villus samples (CVS), cultured villus cells or early amniocentesis samples, is likely to be limited. It is, however, important that these results are reported and similarly that any problems which arise are fully documented.