Indications and Interventions in Prenatal Diagnosticsin Eight Centers in the Czech Republic

Overview

Objective:
To register the spectrum of indications and types of invasive procedures in clinicalpractice.Methods: We offered participation in the project to all prenatal diagnostic centres in the CzechRepublic. We provided a database for entering the necessary data in Microsoft Access format.During the period of 2002-2003, we obtained data of 5800 prenatal diagnostic procedures fromeight centres.Results: The data analysis revealed that the amniocentesis was the most used procedure –⁠ 90.2% -⁠ Cordocentesis 4.8%, termination of pregnancy 2.34%, and multifetal reduction 1.03%.All other procedures (intraumbilical transfusion, amniodrainage, amnioinfusion, early amniocentesis

Key words:
amniocentesis, cordocentesis, prenatal invasive methods