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Re: A message for Brenda with the 1:91 AFP result

From: R. Daniel Braun, MD (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Thu, 5 Apr 2001 22:27:50 -0500 (CDT)

At Thu, 5 Apr 2001, Sarah wrote: >
>Hi Brenda,
>I can tell you are really worried about this. When it happened to me I
>was absolutely sick with worry and despair (1:52 result whan I was 34
>going on 35).
>ANyway, here is what my doctor told me to think about this time about
>doing the amnio... he told me to think ahead about how I would respond
>to the amnio results, ie. would I terminate the pregnancy if it came
>back that the baby had Down's syndrome? He told me that is really the
>bottom line for having that test done versus the level 2 u/s.
>>At Thu, 5 Apr 2001, Wendy wrote:
>>>
>>>At Thu, 5 Apr 2001, Brenda wrote:
>>>
>>>Dear Brenda:
>>>
>>>Thanks for your support, but it turns out my results are completely
>>>normal. The FL is normal taking into consideration the BPD.
>>>
>>>Are you sure yours is way off? What were your results in the U/S (FL,
>>>BPD and HL)? Was everything else fine, donīt let people scare you. O
>>>was scared for nothing.
>>>
>>>Best,
>>>Wendy
>
>--
>Sarah
>

Remeber this is all a numbers game. All we can do, without an amniocentesis, is give you a risk. We can never say the baby does or does not have Down without testing its chromosomes. We can say the risk is low or high, but that is it. Also, it has been my experience that many people change their mind about whether or nto they would have an abortion after they have the amnio results. 

--
R. Daniel Braun, MD FACOG  FOG


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