Recent Advances in Prenatal Medicine

A special issue of Reproductive Medicine (ISSN 2673-3897).

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 June 2022) | Viewed by 4102

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Dear Colleagues,

Preconceptional, preimplantation, and prenatal medicine is a rapidly expanding field with new diagnostic possibilities due to developments in the areas of genetic and molecular diagnosis. These new prospects also pose novel challenges regarding the interpretation of results and ethical considerations. This Special Issue on Recent Advances in Prenatal Medicine aims to publish papers expounding new insights in the area of fetal and maternal medicine.

Prof. Dr. Bettina Blaumeiser
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  • preconceptional medicine
  • preimplantation medicine
  • prenatal medicine

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Case Report
Tetrasomy 9p, a Prenatal Challenge: Two Novel Cases
by Mahtab Zaghi, Katrien Janssens, Wim Hectors, Philip Loquet and Bettina Blaumeiser
Reprod. Med. 2022, 3(1), 42-49; https://doi.org/10.3390/reprodmed3010005 - 8 Mar 2022
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Tetrasomy 9p is a chromosomal disorder characterized by the presence of a supernumerary chromosome. This rare abnormality exhibits a broad phenotypic variability and is not clearly distinguishable from other more frequent aneuploidies in the prenatal setting. We present two prenatal cases with dissimilar [...] Read more.
Tetrasomy 9p is a chromosomal disorder characterized by the presence of a supernumerary chromosome. This rare abnormality exhibits a broad phenotypic variability and is not clearly distinguishable from other more frequent aneuploidies in the prenatal setting. We present two prenatal cases with dissimilar phenotypes, one with solely increased fetal nuchal translucency and one with multiple congenital anomalies, and discuss prior studies. These cases illustrate the difficulty of prenatally diagnosing this condition based on phenotypic information alone. We conclude that invasive prenatal diagnosis with (molecular) karyotyping is the best choice for the prenatal detection of tetrasomy 9p. Full article
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Recent Advances in Prenatal Medicine)
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