Screening of ART Pregnancies Produce Misleading Down Syndrome Results (2 July, 2009)
With pregnancy screening for Down syndrome and other chromosome abnormalities increasingly becoming a routine part of antenatal care, the largest and most comprehensive study to date on Assisted Reproductive Technologies (ART) conceptions in first trimester screening has revealed some worrying statistics. An article published on 6th June 2009, in Human Reproduction*, documents the extent of the problem.
Over 1,700 ART pregnancies and more than 50,000 non-ART pregnancies were tested...more
