| Title: | ARCHIVE-- Topics of Interest to Women, Volume 2 --ARCHIVE |
| Notice: | V2 is closed. TURRIS::WOMANNOTES-V5 is open. |
| Moderator: | REGENT::BROOMHEAD |
| Created: | Thu Jan 30 1986 |
| Last Modified: | Fri Jun 30 1995 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 1105 |
| Total number of notes: | 36379 |
There is a relatively new procedure 35+ year old women can
undertake to determine any chromosome disease in the fetus.
I forget what it stands for, but it is referred to as CVS.
It is equally as safe and reliable as Amnio, but the big
milestone is that it can be performed and interpreted in the
first trimester.
This is a tremendous advantage to those parents who would opt
to abort a down-syndromed or chromosome-imparied fetus. An
abortion in the second trimester is a far more complex and
traumatic experience than one performed in the first.
However, for some reason that makes no sense to me, our present
medical insurance policies will only cover the amnio.
Can anyone elighten me on this issue?
jacki
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| 842.1 | Consider Early Amnio | CADSE::ARMSTRONG | Tue Oct 24 1989 11:31 | 19 | |
There is a good discussion of various pre-natal tests
in the PARENTING notes file.
CVS involves extracting a small biopsy of placental material
for analysis. It is still considered 'experimental' and far
riskier than amnio. We were STRONGLY advised against it.
In the notes, one woman describes her (so far) successful
experience with CVS. Her insurance paid the equivalent of what
an amnio would have cost, almost all of the cost of CVS.
There now is an 'early amnio' procedure that is safer than CVS but
still provides the info you need in time for a first tri-mester
decision. Contact Dr. Wayne Miller in Lexington, Mass. We thought
he was great.
There are some good texts that discuss many pre-natal tests, their
advantages and disadvantages. Your care-provider should be able
to recommend some.
bob
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| 842.2 | ULTRA::WITTENBERG | Secure Systems for Insecure People | Tue Oct 24 1989 12:19 | 8 | |
According to my memory of a conversation with a doctor (whose wife
was pregnant at the time), they chose CVS feeling that it had
about the same rate of complications, but the complications from
amniocentesis tend to be miscarriages, and the complications from
CVS tend to affect the mother more. After working so hard to get
pregnant, they wanted to protect the fetus as much as possible.
--David
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