TITLE:
Retrospective Descriptive Analysis of the Combined First Trimester of Pregnancy Screening in the Period Included from February 2016 to March 2017, Maternal Fetal Medicine Unit, San Juan de Dios Hospital
AUTHORS:
Carina Breuning Velásquez, Oscar Durán Soto, Joaquin Bustillos Villavicencio, Jorge Mora Sandí, Eugenio Calderon, Veronica Saborio, Leonardo Jimenez, Pablo Parra
KEYWORDS:
Protocol, Combined Screening, First Trimester, Aneuploidy, Trisomy
JOURNAL NAME:
Open Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology,
Vol.8 No.10,
August
27,
2018
ABSTRACT: A
retrospective descriptive study is conducted at the San Juan de Dios Hospital,
San José, Costa Rica, during the period from February 2016 to March 2017, with
a total of 37 patients from which a combined screening during the first
trimester of pregnancy was conducted, evaluating maternal age, biochemical and
sonographic methods that together can predict the risk of fetal chromosomal
alterations during pregnancy. The purpose of using combined screening as a
noninvasive method is to identify high risk gestations and to minimize the
number of invasive procedures to detect the highest number of cases. Four patients with higher
risk of aneuploidy during pregnancy were identified through this screening.