Journal article
Clinical follow‐up of high mid‐trimester maternal serum intact human chorionic gonadotrophin concentrations in singleton pregnancies
Abstract
Mid-trimester biochemical screening of 38 143 pregnancies in south-east Scotland revealed 127 cases (0.34 per cent) in which the maternal serum (MS) intact human chorionic gonadotrophin (hCG) concentration was > or = 4 multiples of the median in singleton pregnancies (MOM). Three were lost to follow-up but in 72 (58 per cent) complications developed or there were associated fetal abnormalities. This percentage was greatest at very high hCG …
Authors
Blundell G; Ashby JP; Martin C; Shearing CH; Langdale‐Brown B; Keeling J; Ellis PM; Shade M; Chambers SE; Wenham PR
Journal
Prenatal Diagnosis, Vol. 19, No. 3, pp. 219–223
Publisher
Wiley
Publication Date
March 1999
DOI
10.1002/(sici)1097-0223(199903)19:3<219::aid-pd512>3.0.co;2-k
ISSN
0197-3851