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 ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Testing for genetic defects early in pregnancy through chorionic villus sampling, or CVS, does not appear to raise the risk of fetal loss. CVS involves using a needle to ...

Our team of maternal-fetal medicine specialists and prenatal genetic counselors have extensive training and experience in prenatal genetic testing. Providers throughout the Mountain West regularly ...

Cedars-Sinai and UCLA investigators have studied first trimester placental tissue and found that for some genes, the process that turns their information into a biological function may depend on the ...

Noninvasive prenatal testing detected 83.2 percent of chromosomal abnormalities normally picked up by invasive diagnostic testing strategies, such as chorionic villus sampling or amniocentesis. In a ...

Both tests can tell whether there are genetic defects in a developing baby, although nothing can be done to correct those defects. The decision to offer the tests to women beginning at age 35 is ...

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 ...