Case 11-2005 - A 32-Year-Old Pregnant Woman with an Abnormal Fetal Karyotype

doi:10.1056/NEJMcpc059005

Volume 352:1579-1587		April 14, 2005		Number 15

Case 11-2005 — A 32-Year-Old Pregnant Woman with an Abnormal Fetal Karyotype

Lewis B. Holmes, M.D., Antonio R. Gargiulo, M.D., Allan S. Nadel, M.D., and Catherine Racowsky, Ph.D.

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Presentation of Case

A 32-year-old woman in the 17th week of her first pregnancywas referred for genetic counseling after her fetus had beenfound to have an abnormal karyotype. She had had an uneventfulfirst trimester. In the 14th week, transabdominal and transvaginalultrasonography, performed to evaluate an ovarian cyst, revealeda single intrauterine gestational sac containing a normal fetuswith a normal heart rate. The area of nuchal translucency was3.7 mm in diameter (normal, $≤$ 2.5 mm) (Figure 1 shows an ultrasoundstudy of a similar fetus). There were two cysts within the leftovary; a clear cyst, 4.1 cm . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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From the Genetics and Teratology Unit, Mass General Hospital for Children (L.B.H.), and the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology (A.S.N.), Massachusetts General Hospital; the Departments of Pediatrics (L.B.H.) and Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Biology (A.R.G., A.S.N., C.R.), Harvard Medical School; and the Center for Reproductive Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital (A.R.G., C.R.).