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Re: Superfetation or severe IUGR?? From: Kathi Wilson (wilsonk@gtn.on.ca) Sat Feb 24 17:40:08 2001 Messages sorted by: [ date ][ thread ][ subject ][ author ] Next message: DoctorJoe@aol.com: "Re: Superfetation or severe IUGR??" Previous message: art fougner, md: "Re: US docs only. Telephone consults" Maybe in reply to: M. Kelly Shanahan, MD: "Superfetation or severe IUGR??" Next in thread: DoctorJoe@aol.com: "Re: Superfetation or severe IUGR??" DoctorJoe@aol.com wrote: > Triploid fetus? > Alien implant? > Why not do genetic studies? Not for abortion, but for diagnostic reasons... Joe, you're such an X-Files fan :-) But you make a good point (not about the alien implant). People too often assume that the point of genetic diagnosis is abortion. We currently have in care a woman whose fetus has a mass of uncertain origin occupying the right hemithorax. She is a fundamentalist Christian, and immediately rejected amniocentesis (by our fetal development clinic people -- MFM and neo) because she equated it w/ pressure for an abortion. However, our MFM doc pointed out to her that amnio could be used to pinpoint diagnosis, and, for example, if she were carrying a fetus w/ a chromosomal abnormality incompatible w/ life, then if the baby crashed during labour, she might avoid an unnecessary section. -- Kathi Wilson, RM Ilderton, Ontario, Canada mailto:wilsonk@gtn.on.ca ********************** Thames Valley Midwives 346 Platts Lane, London, Ontario, Canada http://tvm.on.ca mailto:info@tvm.on.ca Next message: DoctorJoe@aol.com: "Re: Superfetation or severe IUGR??" Previous message: art fougner, md: "Re: US docs only. Telephone consults" Maybe in reply to: M. Kelly Shanahan, MD: "Superfetation or severe IUGR??" Next in thread: DoctorJoe@aol.com: "Re: Superfetation or severe IUGR??"

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