Amniocentesis Health Article

BOOKS

Elias, Sherman, Simpson, Joe Leigh and Bombard, Allan T. "Amniocentesis and Fetal Blood Sampling." In Genetic Disorders in the Fetus: Diagnosis, Prevention, and Treatment, 5th Edition, edited by Aubrey Milunsky. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998, 53-82.

Rapp, Rayna. Testing Women, Testing the Fetus: The Social Impact of Amniocentesis in America. New York: Routledge, 2000.

Shannon, Joyce B. "Amniocentesis and chorionic villus sampling (CVS)." In Health Reference Series, Medical Tests Sourcebook. Shannon, Joyce B, Editor. Detroit, MI, Omniographics, Inc., 1999, 517-522.

Wexler, Keith and Wexler, Laurie. The ABC's of Prenatal Diagnosis. Denver, CO: Genassist Inc., 1994.

PERIODICALS

Bahado-Singh R.O., Oz U., Hsu C.D., Deren O., Copel J.A., Mahoney M.J. "Ratio of nuchal thickness to humerus length for Down syndrome detection." American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology 184, no. 6. (2001): 1284-1288.

Brambati B., Tului L., Guercilena S., Alberti E. "Outcome of first-trimester chorionic villus sampling for genetic investigation in multiple pregnancy." Ultrasound in Obstetrics and Gynecology 17, no. 3 (2001): 209-216.

Canadian Early and Mid-trimester Amniocentesis Trial (CEMAT) Group. "Randomized trial to assess the safety and fetal outcome of early and mid-trimester amniocentesis." Lancet 351 (January 24, 1998): 242-247.

Cederholm M., Sjoden P.O., Axelsson O. "Psychological distress before and after prenatal invasive karyotyping." Acta Obstetrics and Gynecology of Scandinavia 80, no. 6(2001): 539-545.

Minola E., Maccabruni A., Pacati I., Martinetti M. "Amniocentesis as a possible risk factor for mother-to-infant transmission of hepatitis C virus." Hepatology 33, no. 5 (2001): 1341-1342.

Stoler J.M., Bromley B., Castro M.A., Cole W.G., Florer J., Wenstrup R.J. "Separation of amniotic membranes after amniocentesis in an individual with the classic form of EDS and haploinsufficiency for COL5A1 expression." American Journal of Medical Genetics 101, no. 2 (2001): 174-177.

Tercyak K.P., Johnson S.B., Roberts S.F., Cruz A.C. "Psychological response to prenatal genetic counseling and amniocentesis." Patient Education and Counseling 43, no. 1 (2001): 73-84.

ORGANIZATIONS

American Association for Clinical Chemistry, 2101 L Street, NW - Suite 202, Washington, DC 20037-1558. (800) 892-1400 or (202) 857-0717. Fax: (202) 887-5093. www.aacc.org.info@aacc.org.

American Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology, 2915 Vine Street Suite 300, Dallas TX. 75204. (214) 871-1619. Fax:(214) 871-1943. <http://www.abog.org/>. info@abog.org.

American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, 409 12th St., S.W., PO Box 96920, Washington, D.C. 20090-6920. <http://www.acog.org/>.

American Infertility Association, 666 Fifth Avenue, Suite 278, New York, NY 10103. (718) 621-5083. <http://www.americaninfertility.org/>. info@americaninfertility.org.

American Society for Reproductive Medicine. 1209 Montgomery Highway, Birmingham, AL 35216-2809.(205) 978-5000. <http://www.asrm.com>.

OTHER

American Academy of Family Physicians. <http://familydoctor.org/handouts/144.html>.

Medical College of Pennsylvania Hahnemann University. <http://www.mcphu.edu/institutes/iwh/whe/briefs/amnio.htm>.

National Library of Medicine. <http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/003921.htm>.

Neonatology on the Web. <http://www.neonatology.org/syllabus/amniocentesis.html>.

Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists. <http://www.rcog.org.uk/guidelines/amniocentesis.html>.

Stanford University. <http://www.stanford.edu/~holbrook/Amniocentesis.html>.

University of Michigan College of Medicine. <http://www.med.umich.edu/1libr/womens/ob09.htm>.

L. Fleming Fallon, Jr., MD, DrPH