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National decline in invasive prenatal diagnostic procedures in association with uptake of combined first trimester and cell‐free DNA aneuploidy screening
11 Aug 2015
Abstract excerpt
In late 2012, a new screening test for fetal aneuploidy based on circulating cell-free DNA (cfDNA) became available to Australian women. The introduction of this technology in the United States has led to a reduction in invasive diagnostic procedures. Analysis of the number of amniocentesis and chorionic villus sampling (CVS) procedures performed in Australia from 1994 to 2014 shows that the introduction of cfDNA...
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