This is the fifth in a series of articles exploring testing procedures available for you and your baby during pregnancy. Chorionic villus sampling (CVS) is a testing procedure performed during the ...

Bhopal (Madhya Pradesh): In a significant medical milestone, the Obstetrics and Gynecology Department at AIIMS Bhopal successfully performed its first Chorionic Villus Sampling (CVS) procedure on ...

A research team from Odense University Hospital and the University of Southern Denmark has developed an innovative screening test. With a blood sample from the expectant mother, they can scrutinize ...

Chorionic villus sampling is a prenatal diagnostic test performed for prenatal genetic testing involving a biopsy of placental tissue between 10 to 13 weeks gestation. The tissue harvested is the ...

Purpose: Current diagnostic methods for chromosomal abnormalities rely mainly on karyotyping and occasionally fluorescent in situ hybridization or quantitative polymerase chain reaction. We describe ...

In its early life, the placenta is called a chorion because it is formed from the chorionic villi - finger-like growths which develop on the fertilised egg to help it implant in the wall of the uterus ...

A research team from Odense University Hospital and the University of Southern Denmark has developed an innovative screening test. With a blood sample from the expectant mother, they can scrutinize ...