The impact of free antenatal care on perinatal mortality

Ebrahim, Shamim; Daponte, Alexandros; Guidozzi, F

doi:10.1016/s0020-7292(00)00212-5

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“…Congenital anomalies cause 20.0-25.0% of perinatal deaths, while 3.0% of children are born with malformations of varying size [1]. Analytical immunochemiluminescence assays and an automated analyzer IMMULITE 2000 [Diagnostics Product Corporation (DPC), Los Angeles, CA, USA] were used.…”

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Value of the Combined Test in Prenatal Diagnostics

Loncar

2010

Balkan Journal of Medical Genetics

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Value of the Combined Test in Prenatal DiagnosticsCongenital anomalies are the cause of 20.0-25.0% of cases of perinatal death, while 3.0% of children are born with malformations of varying size. We examined the predictive values and defined the credibility ratio of the combined test results. Of 317 examined pregnant women, 16 (5.05%) gave a pathological karyotype after amniocentesis: of these, nine (2.84%) had chromosomal number aberrations and seven (2.21%) had chromosomal structure aberrations. We determined the ultrasonographic parameters using the standards of the Fetal Medicine Foundation (location please). We measured free β-subunit of choriogronadotropin (β-HCG) and pregnancy associated plasma protein A (PAPP-A) in venous blood from pregnant women using a combined commercial assay. Sensitivity of the test is 94.0%, and specificity is 99.0%. The positive likelihood ratio [likelihood ratio test (LR+)] is 94.00, a negative likelihood ratio is [likelihood ratio test (LR-)] 0.06. The pretest probability that pregnant women carry a fetus with chromosomal abnormality is 1:250. Posttest odds after the combined test to discover this abnormality is 0.3760, and probability of the same case is 0.2732 if it happens that the test result is positive. The result of our study confirms the justification of combined test usage in routine clinical practice, since the posttest odds rate in the case of a positive screening increases several times over (almost 90 times); the probability of detecting a chromosomal abnormality was about 70 times. The combined screening test, if used methodologically correctly, has a high predictive value in detecting fetal congenital anomalies.

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