When are amniotic fluid viral PCR studies indicated in prenatal diagnosis?

Prenatal Diagnosis

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 88-93

  Adams, L L ^a   Gungor, S ^a   Turan, S ^a   Kopelman, J N ^a   Harman, C R ^a   Baschat, A A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Abnormal karyotype; Congenital viral infection; Fetal abnormality; Midtrimester genetic amniocentesis; Polymerase chain reaction (PCR); Prenatal diagnosis; Ultrasound; Viral pathogen

Indexed keywords

ADENOVIRUS; ADULT; AMNIOCENTESIS; AMNION FLUID ANALYSIS; ANEUPLOIDY; ARTICLE; BRAIN CYST; BRAIN VENTRICLE DILATATION; CHOROID PLEXUS TUMOR; CLEFT FACE; CLUBFOOT; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONGENITAL HEART MALFORMATION; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS CALLOSUM AGENESIS; CYSTIC ADENOMATOID MALFORMATION; CYSTIC LYMPHANGIOMA; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS; DIAPHRAGM HERNIA; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ECHOGENIC BOWEL; ECHOGENIC LIVER; ENTEROVIRUS; EPSTEIN BARR VIRUS; FEMALE; FETUS; FETUS DISEASE; FETUS ECHOGRAPHY; FETUS HYDROPS; FOOT MALFORMATION; GASTROSCHISIS; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GESTATIONAL AGE; HAND MALFORMATION; HUMAN; HUMAN PARVOVIRUS B19; HYDRAMNIOS; HYDROCEPHALUS; HYDRONEPHROSIS; INTRAUTERINE GROWTH RETARDATION; KARYOTYPING; KIDNEY AGENESIS; KIDNEY MALFORMATION; LIMB BODY WALL COMPLEX; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MICROGNATHIA; MULTIPLEX POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; NEURAL TUBE DEFECT; NUCHAL CORD; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; OLIGOHYDRAMNIOS; OMPHALOCELE; PERICARDIAL EFFUSION; PLEURA EFFUSION; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYELECTASIS; RESPIRATORY SYNCYTIAL PNEUMOVIRUS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SECOND TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; THORAX WALL DEFECT; TRIPLOIDY; TRISOMY 18; TRISOMY 21; TURNER SYNDROME; VIRUS DETECTION; VIRUS GENOME;

ADULT; AMNIOCENTESIS; AMNIOTIC FLUID; COHORT STUDIES; DNA VIRUS INFECTIONS; FEMALE; FETAL DISEASES; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMANS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, INFECTIOUS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RNA VIRUS INFECTIONS; VIRUS DISEASES; VIRUSES;

ADENOVIRIDAE; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS; ENTEROVIRUS; HUMAN HERPESVIRUS 4; PARVOVIRUS; RESPIRATORY SYNCYTIAL VIRUS;

EID: 84857500433     PISSN: 01973851     EISSN: 10970223     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pd.3835     Document Type: Article

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