http://harvardscience.harvard.edu/stories/person/1438 Stories and external links referencing a person (RSS) en http://harvardscience.harvard.edu/engineering-technology/articles/genetic-sonograms-may-reduce-need-amniocentesis <!--paging_filter--><p>Radiologist Beryl Benacerraf is a Harvard Medical School clinical professor of obstetrics, gynecology and reproductive biology at Brigham and Women's Hospital. Benacerraf, a handful of like-minded maternal-fetal ultrasound specialists, and a growing number of older pregnant women believe in clarifying the risk of a genetic abnormality in a fetus by adding a detailed ultrasound known as a genetic sonogram. In skilled hands, the method may pick up about 80 percent of Down syndrome fetuses while reducing the risk for most high-risk women. Benacerraf says "there has to be a better way" than the amniocentesis test routinely used for pregnant women 35 and older.</p> <p><a href="http://harvardscience.harvard.edu/engineering-technology/articles/genetic-sonograms-may-reduce-need-amniocentesis">read more</a></p> Mon, 26 Mar 2007 05:24:41 -0400 70652986 3253 at http://harvardscience.harvard.edu