NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Testing for genetic defects early in pregnancy through chorionic villus sampling, or CVS, does not appear to raise the risk of fetal loss. CVS involves using a needle to ...

Chorionic villus sampling is a prenatal diagnostic test performed for prenatal genetic testing involving a biopsy of placental tissue between 10 to 13 weeks gestation. The tissue harvested is the ...

Prenatal genetic testing determines if an offspring is at risk of genetic or hereditary conditions. This can inform the parents of decisions such as keeping the child or not or adjusting to help them ...

Pregnant women can have prenatal testing performed during their pregnancies to determine whether or not their baby could have certain disorders. Two types of tests are chorionic villus sampling (CVS) ...