Re: ultrasound prenasal thickness
From: art fougner, md (evsono@pipeline.com)
Wed Aug 22 14:44:03 2007
Yet another marker for Down's ... as all NEW findings, this remains to
be corroborated by larger series. IF we had so many markers for ovarian
cancer, we'd have eradicated ovarian cancer by now.
Art
At Wed, 22 Aug 2007, mark decker wrote:
>
>i figured there was a new article out i had not seen yet - as a
>trigger for the question - did not see it on pub med yet - and did
>not do medline this a.m.
>
>thanks for the tip.
>
>i agree - real world - wait and see - besides it won't be used as an
>isolated additional test so what's the diff in the big picture when
>used in toto with what is already out there - US - quad - combined -
>integrated - whatever we choose to use?
>
>i will have to see the article - thanks
>
>mdmd
>
>At 10:11 AM 8/22/2007, you wrote:
>>Current Gray Journal has an article looking at nasal/facial planes
>>as sono correlates of trisomy....tho' when I see such reports I
>>discount heavily the possibility of the world at large, outside of
>>highly focused investigators, providing sono services accurately
>>employing such assessments.
>>Hank
>>
>>mark decker <mhdmd@wi.rr.com> wrote:
>>to be more specific - i saspect you are referencing prenasal
>>thickness in down's - tri 21 dx -
>>
>>the articles from 8-11/2005 are from one author and i can't find
>>follow up studies prekaryotype on follow up - the short pieces of the
>>articles i found don't discuss full incorporation into a quat screen
>>scenario per se - just comparing nb and nb abd prenasal measurements
>>with a 70% pick up rate at a 5% error rate with a combined screen
>>
>>nb screening is mentioned - varied results
>>
>>last full review i saw on tri 21 screening - looking at multiple
>>studies was from may 2007
>>
>>hope this is useful to you
>>
>>thanks
>>
>>mdmd
>>
>>in short - validation studies not done yet -
>>
>>btw - fyi - maymon's study was on 21 down's infants and 500 controls
>>
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>> >does anyone have experience in that subject?.
>> >I do not use actually
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