Procedures

Amniocentesis is the procedure by which a small amount of fluid is drawn from the amniotic sac in order to perform diagnostic genetic tests to examine the health of the fetus. The amniotic fluid after the 16th week of the pregnancy when amniocentesis is performed, is...

Chorionic callus sampling is essentially a placental biopsy, a procedure by which a small amount of placental tissue is obtained. The placenta, as well as the fetus, originate from the same source, the fertilized egg and they share the same genetic material. In that...

The advancement of the imaging techniques and the diagnostic possibilities of the last 30 years enabled the scientific community to understand to a great extend the physiology of the fetus and its diseases. In some of them there is the possibility of intra-uterine...