Tang screening, sweet\'s \"panic\"

What is \"down\'s syndrome\"

Down\'s syndrome, commonly known as congenital dementia. It is one of the most common chromosomal disease, about 1 every 750 babies with down\'s syndrome.

Why screening for down\'s syndrome?

Has a serious mental disorder in children with Tang, daily life cannot, and accompanied by complex cardiovascular disease, you need long-term care of the family, to the great spirit and economic burden on families.

Who will give birth to \"down \'s\"?

Down\'s syndrome is a sporadic disease, so every pregnant women could give birth to \"down\'s child\". Tang likely will rise as maternal age increment.

How to screen?

Extraction in Sera of pregnant women, detection of hepatitis a fetus in maternal serum protein (AFP) and down to promote gland hormone (HGG) concentrations, with weeks of the expected date, age, and when the blood of pregnant women, to calculate the \"down \'s\" risk, which can detect 80% of Tang.

During the screening of the best?

Di15-20 week of pregnancy.

Screening for down\'s syndrome can also check what disease?

Check serum AFP, HGG can also be administered defect screening with ecstasy, Trisomy 18 syndrome and Trisomy 13 syndrome in women at high risk.

How do I know screening results?

2-3 weeks after the blood of pregnant women to clinics doing routine antenatal care visits by outpatient doctors informed of the results, if they tested positive for serum screening are required to do check the amniotic fluid, clear diagnosis.

Physician Cheng troubleshooting:

Cheng Haidong, female, chief physician of obstetrics and Gynecology Hospital of Fudan University, Master Instructor.

Good at diagnosis and treatment of common diseases of obstetrics and Gynecology, and frequently occurring illnesses; for patients with infertility, ectopic endometriosis, uterine fibroids, pelvic inflammatory disease, menopause syndrome have extensive clinical experience. In particular, have unique accomplishments in perinatal medicine, pregnancy, placenta previa, diabetes in pregnancy, preterm birth and other high risk pregnancy a correct judgment and processing. More than 10 papers published, involved in the preparation of monographs by the practical and the modern obstetrics, Gynecology and obstetrics of the obstetrics pathology.

Q: do has the Tang screening risk? It and puncturing the amniotic fluid examination has difference? (Xu Fang, Beijing)
A: Tang screening is extracted from maternal blood, puncturing the amniotic fluid is amniocentesis taking amniotic fluid. Relatively speaking, the extraction of peripheral blood of pregnant women are not dangerous.

Q: what should pay attention to when checking? You can eat breakfast? (Wuhan Li Dan)
A: Tang screening done without fasting, but with the menstrual cycle, weight, height, accurate pregnancy weeks gestational size. In General, in the 15-20 pregnancy week to Tang during the screening of the best.

Q: I asked the staff of the Shanghai women\'s health, they do say that only high risk and must be voluntary, and also to sign a contract. But my friend told me Beijing, of their hospital provision needs to be done there. May I ask what is doing or not doing it? (Shanghai Yang l)
A: economic developed area to improve the quality of population born, advocate the strengthening work in prenatal diagnosis. As the Tang screening method is simple, to damage in pregnant women, especially for large-scale screening (perinatal health care hospital is now fully in Shanghai), hope that the majority of pregnant women have access to check.

Q: is more than only 35 years old, have a family history of genetic screening for Tang\'s mother must do? (Zhou Yang, Hangzhou)
A: because of the down\'s syndrome is a sporadic disease, every pregnant women could give birth to Tang, so every mother has accepted Tang necessary screening.

Q: what is the mother of twins, triplets would not have made a Tang screening? (Ye Chunyan, Shenyang)
A: twins, triplets and maternal health, Tang equally possible, therefore also Tang screening should be done.

Q: how Tang screening accuracy? Why do I hear some mother said a low accuracy rate, after doing instead of worrying? In the case of accuracy is not high, whether it is necessary to do screening for Tang? (Shanghai Wang Na)
A: Tang screening is a check for the possibility of screening for fetal down\'s syndrome, the result is not a final diagnosis, but risk coefficient, that is, likelihood of suffering from down\'s syndrome, there is need for further checks (such as puncturing the amniotic fluid, and so on) can be confirmed, so further checks before the results are not yet there, don\'t panic.

There is currently no effective treatment for down\'s syndrome means is the best means of dealing with it in production before termination of pregnancy in pregnant women. Tang screening no side-effects, both to narrow the scope of amniotic fluid examination, without omissions may have dementia and children of pregnant women, so every pregnant woman has a need for screening for down\'s so hip in the bud.