Prenatal Invasive Procedures
Prenatal Ultrasounds
Prenatal Invasive Diagnostic And Therapeutic Procedures
With improved imaging techniques and advances in ultrasound technology, more and more of congenital birth defects or fetal malformations are getting diagnosed during antenatal or prenatal ultrasounds. As these fetal structural defects have become more readily identified, number of prenatal diagnostic and therapeutic procedures have also been amplified. Following are the few commonly indicated or offered antenatal intrauterine procedures.
- Amniocentesis
- Chorionic Villous Sampling
- Multifetal Pregnancy Reduction / Selective Fetal Reduction
- Fetal Blood Sampling (Cordocentesis)
- Intrauterine Blood Transfusion
- Amniodrainage
- Fetal Thoracocentesis, Vesiocentesis, Abdominal Paracentesis