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prenatal diagnosis
(redirected from Antenatal screening)

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Noun1.prenatal diagnosis - any of the diagnostic procedures used to determine whether a fetus has a genetic abnormality
diagnostic procedure, diagnostic technique - a procedure followed in making a medical diagnosis
echography, sonography, ultrasonography, ultrasound - using the reflections of high-frequency sound waves to construct an image of a body organ (a sonogram); commonly used to observe fetal growth or study bodily organs
amnio, amniocentesis - (pregnancy) extraction by centesis of amniotic fluid from a pregnant woman (after the 15th week of pregnancy) to aid in the diagnosis of fetal abnormalities
fetoscopy, foetoscopy - prenatal diagnosis that allows direct observation of a fetus in the uterus and the withdrawal of fetal blood
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Training midwives In order for the antenatal screening policy to be successful, midwives had to be trained to enable them to successfully and confidently offer the HIV test, understand its importance and implications, and answer women's questions.
Antenatal HIV screening: a midwife's perspective by Sivyour, Lynne / HIV Nursing
This requires routine antenatal screening for HBV infection (8,9), offered by 34 countries in Europe, with infants born to all hepatitis B infected mothers being offered immediate postnatal active immunization with hepatitis B vaccine.
Non-A hepatitis B virus genotypes in antenatal clinics, United Kingdom by Dervisevic, Samir; Ijaz, Samreen; Chaudry, Shahneila; Tedder, Richard S. / Emerging Infectious Diseases
HIV prevalence among women who availed of antenatal screening was roughly in line with the European average.
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