At the beginning of a pregnancy, a thousand anxieties grip the mind of a future mother.
May the pregnancy progress, may you feel the fetal heartbeat, may there be no bleeding, may everything proceed as it should. But already during the first obstetric visit, you'll be asked the first truly difficult question: "Do you want to know if your baby is healthy?"
Nowadays, prenatal diagnosis includes several options: a more invasive diagnosis (amniocentesis e villocentesis) it's a non-invasive diagnosis (Fetal DNA) risk-free for the fetus and for the mother who estimates a risk of chromosomal abnormality.
FETAL DNA is a non-invasive prenatal test (NIPT) which allows for a complete genetic screening to be performed thanks to the examination of circulating fetal DNA (fragments of fetal DNA that circulate in the maternal blood).
With a simple blood sample from the mother, it is possible to establish, with a high probability, chromosomal abnormalities and others any pathologies genetics in the fetus and in the mother.
Not sure which test to take?
Request a genetic consultation with our geneticists.
The purpose of genetic counseling is to provide information regarding genetic diseases and the possible tests to choose from.
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