Re: Tetralogy of Fallot w/ absent Pulmonary Valve in Subsequent Pregnancies?

From: Charlie Chambers (ricechaz@earthlink.net)
Sun Jun 25 13:52:45 2006


Yep, Claire nailed it. I always hated the term. Now that I'm in my mid 40's, 35 seems like young maternal age esp. since my twins recently turned 13 (nothing like it to make you feel like an old man). I always thought they should change the term to something else like too young for colonoscopy maternal age, or way too early for AARP maternal age.

On Jun 25, 2006, at 10:21 AM, claire wrote:

> Advanced Maternal Age (I think, only thing I can see that makes
> sense in
> the context)
>
> Claire
> BSc Midwifery student
>
>> I have one more question, if that's ok? What do you mean by AMA? I've
>> always thought that to be "against medical advice", but it doesn't
>> really work in this context. I think my brain is fried.
>> Jennifer Duggan, CPM
>>
>> At Sat, 24 Jun 2006, Charlie Chambers wrote:
>>>
>>> Assuming no genetic basis for the cardiac anomaly, her recurrence
>>> risk is low, roughly 3% in subsequent pregnancies. Genetic amnio
>>> won't be of use unless she's AMA. Consider nuchal translucency
>>> testing, roughly 40% of CV anomalies will have abnormal testing, and
>>> later fetal echo.
>>>
>

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