Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, MacKay Memorial Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan; Department of Medical Research, MacKay Memorial Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan; Department of Biotechnology, Asia University, Taichung, Taiwan; School of Chinese Medicine, College of Chinese Medicine, China Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan; Institute of Clinical and Community Health Nursing, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan; Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, School of Medicine, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan. Electronic address: cpc_mmh@yahoo.com.
The journal of maternal-fetal & neonatal medicine : the official journal of the European Association of Perinatal Medicine, the Federation of Asia and Oceania Perinatal Societies, the International Society of Perinatal Obstetricians
2020-04-16
The journal of maternal-fetal & neonatal medicine : the official journal of the European Association of Perinatal Medicine, the Federation of Asia and Oceania Perinatal Societies, the International Society of Perinatal Obstetricians
2020-04-16
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Kaohsiung Chang Gung Memorial Hospital and Chang Gung University College of Medicine, Kaohsiung, Taiwan. Electronic address: tyhsu@cgmh.org.tw.
The journal of maternal-fetal & neonatal medicine : the official journal of the European Association of Perinatal Medicine, the Federation of Asia and Oceania Perinatal Societies, the International Society of Perinatal Obstetricians
2020-04-16
The journal of maternal-fetal & neonatal medicine : the official journal of the European Association of Perinatal Medicine, the Federation of Asia and Oceania Perinatal Societies, the International Society of Perinatal Obstetricians
2020-04-16
Amniocentesis is the most performed invasive prenatal diagnostic procedure. Learning the procedure is difficult for the learner, the teacher and the patient because of the risks inherent to this techn...
We were inspired by Pierre Jean's precepts for the planning of a medical training. We then carried out the pedagogical session with the gynecology residents of our Regional University Hospital, a type...
Fifteen learners, from the first to the last semester of internship, participated in the training. The median score of the pre-training questionnaire ("pre-test" questionnaire) was 3.3 out of 10 (min ...
The residents in our department expressed a need for training in this invasive procedure of antenatal diagnosis. The training proved to be beneficial following the evaluation of the learning but also ...
Complete chromosome 9 trisomy (T9) is a rare and fatal chromosomal disorder. We performed non-invasive prenatal testing (NIPT) in a patient with threatened abortion symptoms and found that the fetal w...
In the setting of a normal first-trimester ultrasound, an amniocentesis may be a better option than chorionic villous sampling for invasive diagnostic testing after a cell-free DNA high risk for triso...
There is an increasing demand for prenatal diagnostic testing in twin pregnancies, however, anecdotally there is a higher incidence of procedure-related complications after amniocentesis than that in ...
Women with twin pregnancies who underwent amniocentesis between January 2016 and December 2020 were enrolled in this retrospective study. Procedure-related complications including spontaneous miscarri...
A total of 811 women with twin pregnancies underwent amniocentesis were included, with a procedure-related complications rate of 3.83%. Risk factors associated with increased risk of procedure-related...
The procedure-related complications rate is 3.83% in our institution during the study period. The present study has emphasized the significance of certain risk factors for adverse outcome and will be ...
This study aims to analyze whether undergoing amniocentesis during pregnancy in women diagnosed with hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection leads to HBV transmission to newborns....
Retrospective data collection was conducted from June 2019 to November 2022 on expectant mothers positive for hepatitis B surface antigen (HBsAg) who underwent amniocentesis at The Third Affiliated Ho...
In this study, 346 expectant mothers tested positive for HBsAg, along with 351 newborns (including 5 sets of twins, with 8 infants (2.28%) testing HBsAg-positive at birth. All newborns received dual i...
Among HBsAg-positive expectant mothers, only a small number of infants are infected with the hepatitis B virus at birth, the proportion of which is relatively low. Infants born to mothers who are HBeA...
To evaluate obstetrical outcomes for women having late amniocentesis (on or after 24 weeks). Electronic databases were searched from inception to January 1st, 2023. The obstetrical outcomes evaluated ...
This network meta-analysis compared different methods to determine which is most efficient at lowering pain and anxiety in women undergoing amniocentesis....
We looked through all published randomized controlled trials in the databases PubMed, Scopus, Web of Science, Cochrane, and EM base. Anxiety and pain were the predominant results. We used the R softwa...
We included a total of 20 studies, with sample sizes ranging from 60 to 570. Virtual reality was the most effective strategy for lowering pain during AC [MD = -1.30, 95% CI (-2.11, -0.49)]. In additio...
The most effective method for reducing pain is the combination of virtual reality with paracetamol. Whereas, the most effective way to reduce anxiety is to combine an ice gel pack with H7 acupressure ...
Valacyclovir is currently the only pharmacological intervention demonstrated to reduce the risk of vertical CMV congenital infection within a randomized clinical trial in case of primary infection dur...
The aim of this study is to evaluate the benefit of cytogenetic testing by amniocentesis after an ultrasound diagnosis of isolated bilateral talipes equinovarus....
This multicenter observational retrospective study includes all prenatally diagnosed cases of isolated bilateral talipes equinovarus in five fetal medicine centers from 2012 through 2021. Ultrasound d...
In all, 214 fetuses with isolated bilateral talipes equinovarus were analyzed. A first-degree family history of talipes equinovarus existed in 9.8% (21/214) of our cohort. Amniocentesis was proposed t...
Despite the low rate of pathogenic chromosomal abnormalities diagnosed prenatally after this ultrasound diagnosis, the risk of chromosomal aberration exceeds the risks of amniocentesis. These data may...
The prenatal diagnosis of chromosomal mosaicism is fraught with uncertainty. Karyotyping, chromosomal microarray analysis (CMA), and fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) are three commonly used t...
A retrospective review of mosaicism was conducted in 18,369 pregnant women from January 2016 to November 2021. The subjects underwent amniocentesis to obtain amniotic fluid for G-band karyotyping with...
In total, 101 cases of chromosomal mosaicism were detected in 100 pregnant women (0.54%, 100/18,369). Four were lost during follow-up, 61 opted to terminate their pregnancy, and 35 gave birth to a hea...
Based on the postnatal follow-up results from the babies born, we obtained a more hopeful result for the prognosis of chromosomal mosaicism. Although karyotyping was the most sensitive method for dete...
· Karyotyping combined with uncultured FISH or CMA is beneficial for prenatal diagnosis of chromosomal mosaicism.. · Fetuses without ultrasound structural anomalies with chromosomal mosaicism often ha...
