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Re: Birth defect legal questionFrom: Henry Gregor (henrygregor@yahoo.com)Sun Jan 30 22:04:42 2005
"Joanne Bulley, MD" <islesannie@yahoo.com> wrote: What I hear from Art --- is that a NORMAL US does NOT mean that there are NO birth defects. It doesn't mean that threre aren't certain defects can be ruled in or out close to the 100% mark --- but that even if everything that can be done as "screening" (without other suspicions justifying the test) there WILL still be birth defects not diagnosible before birth -- and some that will be diagnosed later in life than birth. Joanne A few years ago I attended a seminar with Stuart Campbell speaking on ultrasound. With regard to antenatal ultrasound dx of anomalies, he mentioned he was quite happy to achieve something on the order of "....x perscentage accuracy" with x being, as I recall, around 75 percent. Gary Cunningham (the meeting was at Parkland Memorial in Dallas) broke in to state that - living in Texas, not the UK - he lay awake at night worrying that his department sono section's pickup rate might be less than - I'm stumbling here for the figure he cited - something on the order of "only" 95 percent. To which Doctor Campbell observed that therein lay the difference between the American and English legal systems. Hank The all-new My Yahoo! – Get yours free!
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