Research Catalog

Title

Screening for Down's syndrome / edited by J.G. Grudzinskas ... [et al.].

Publication

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, c1994.

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Details

Additional Authors

Grudzinskas, J. G. (Jurgis Gediminas)

Description

xii, 346 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Subject

• Down syndrome > Diagnosis
• Prenatal diagnosis
• Down syndrome
• Chorionic gonadotropins > Analysis
• Human chromosome abnormalities > Diagnosis
• Down Syndrome > diagnosis
• Chorionic Gonadotropin > analysis
• Prenatal Diagnosis
• Genetic Testing

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographies and index.

Contents

• 1. Down's syndrome epidemiology and biochemical screening / Ernest B. Hook -- 2. Perception of risk / Mary C. M. Macintosh -- 3. Risk estimation in Down's syndrome screening policy and practice / Howard S. Cuckle -- 4. Screening by test combination: a statistical overview / T. M. Reynolds -- 5. Measurement of human chorionic gonadotrophin (hCG) as a screening test for Down's syndrome / T. Chard and Ray Iles -- 6. The measurement of hCG subunits in screening for Down's syndrome / Kevin Spencer -- 7. The measurement of free [beta]-hCG in screening for Down's syndrome / James N. Macri -- 8. Multiple hCG-related molecules / Laurence A. Cole -- 9. Is the measurement of unconjugated oestriol of value in screening for Down's syndrome / Kevin Spencer -- 10. Inhibin and CA 125 in Down's syndrome screening / Jan M. M. van Lith -- 11. Schwangerschafts protein 1 (SP1) and biochemical screening for Down's syndrome / Mary C. M. Macintosh -- 12. Ultrasound and Down's syndrome / Moshe Bronshtein and Zeev Blumenfeld.
• 13. Prenatal diagnosis using fetal cells isolated from maternal blood / Sherman Elias and Joe Leigh Simpson -- 14. Rapid detection of chromosome aneuploidies in uncultured fetal cells using fluorescence in situ hybridisation / Thue Bryndorf, Britta Christensen, Yang Xiang and John Philip -- 15. Organisation of screening programmes: a British experience / A. Milford Ward -- 16. Organisation of screening programmes: the Californian experience / Mitchell S. Golbus, Linda Lustig and George C. Cunningham -- 17. Organisation of screening programmes: the Dutch experience / A. Mantingh, J. R. Beekhuis and L. H. Kornman -- 18. Organisation of screening programmes: the French experience / Francoise Muller and Andre Boue -- 19. The United Kingdom National External Quality Assessment Scheme for screening for Down's syndrome / J. Seth and A. R. Ellis -- 20. Training obstetricians and midwives to offer serum screening for Down's syndrome / Theresa M. Marteau.
• 21. Biochemical screening for Down's syndrome in the first trimester / B. Brambati, L. Tului, I. Bonacchi, Y. Suzuki, K. Shrimanker and J. G. Grudzinskas -- 22. First trimester fetal nuchal translucency / Maria L. Brizot, Perikles Theodoropoulos, Rosalinde J. M. Snijders and Kypros H. Nicolaides -- 23. Screening at 11 14 weeks of gestation: the role of established markers and PAPP-A / Howard Cuckle -- 24. Mid-trimester biochemistry in prediction of third trimester complications / J. L. Simpson, L. Shulman, J. Dungan, O. Phillips and S. Elias.

ISBN

0521452716

LCCN

gb 94098243

OCLC

• 29845627
• ocm29845627
• SCSB-4774592

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries