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Re: CF carrier testing From: Dean Huffman (dean@thehuffpeople.net) Sat Aug 30 10:22:06 2003 Messages sorted by: [ date ][ thread ][ subject ][ author ] Next message: art fougner, md: "Re: CF carrier testing" Previous message: Len2976@aol.com: "Re: CF carrier testing" In reply to: Len2976@aol.com: "Re: CF carrier testing" Next in thread: RModugno@aol.com: "Re: CF carrier testing" . Also, do not forget that under certain circumstances (certain gene mutations), if there is a male fetus, it can be free of clinical cystic fibrosis, but have male infertility as an adult. Couples need to be advised of this fact in the counselling given after a carrier status is found. At 09:46 PM 8/29/2003 -0500, you wrote: Since we're offering the test to patients when we do the AFP, most who take the AFP are doing the CF screen.  With about 60 new OBs a month and the risk of 1:25 to 1:30 in the white population, we are seeing one or two positives a month.  Most patients who have a positive screen have not been overly upset because we tell them before they get the screen that even if they are positive their baby will not have CF unless the father is positive.  We have advised those patients to have the FOC tested.  Those with insurance do and the others have not.  We then notify the pediatrician. Lenora McCall, CNM Next message: art fougner, md: "Re: CF carrier testing" Previous message: Len2976@aol.com: "Re: CF carrier testing" In reply to: Len2976@aol.com: "Re: CF carrier testing" Next in thread: RModugno@aol.com: "Re: CF carrier testing"

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