In combined first-trimester Down syndrome screening, the false-positive rate is not higher in pregnancies conceived after assisted reproduction compared with spontaneous pregnancies

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 95, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 378-381

  Matilainen, Maarit ^a   Peuhkurinen, Sini ^a   Laitinen, Paivi ^a   Jarvela, Ilkka ^a   Morin Papunen, Laure ^a   Ryynanen, Marku ^a  

^a OULU UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Finland)

Author keywords

Assisted reproduction; Down syndrome; f hCG; first trimester screening; PAPP A

Indexed keywords

GONADORELIN AGONIST; GONADORELIN ANTAGONIST; PREGNANCY ASSOCIATED PLASMA PROTEIN A;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOWN SYNDROME; EMBRYO TRANSFER; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; FIRST TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; GENETIC SCREENING; HORMONAL REGULATION; HORMONE SUBSTITUTION; HUMAN; INFERTILITY THERAPY; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MATERNAL AGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN, BETA SUBUNIT, HUMAN; DOWN SYNDROME; FALSE POSITIVE REACTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MASS SCREENING; MATERNAL AGE; MIDDLE AGED; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY TRIMESTER, FIRST; PREGNANCY-ASSOCIATED PLASMA PROTEIN-A; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; REPRODUCTIVE TECHNIQUES, ASSISTED; RISK FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 78650312322     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2010.07.1048     Document Type: Article

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