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VIDEO: Is noninvasive prenatal testing right for your patient?


 

EXPERT ANALYSIS FROM THE SMFM ANNUAL MEETING

NEW ORLEANS – Noninvasive prenatal testing widens the options available to patients and their physicians seeking more information than what is provided by integrated screens, but who are perhaps not willing to take the risks of invasive diagnostic testing. Dr. Mary Norton, vice chair of clinical and translational genetics and a professor of obstetrics and gynecology at the University of California, San Francisco, gives front-line obstetricians pragmatic advice for how to counsel their patients about the use of this emerging screening technology in this video interview.

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