Capella-Pavlovsky M
Rev Prat. 1989 Feb 2;39(3):217-23.
The considerable development, during the last few years, of the antenatal diagnosis of congenital abnormalities is due to progress in cytogenetics but also to rapid improvements in obstetrical ultrasonography. With high-resolution ultrasound scanners, various interventions performed increasingly early during pregnancy can be guided with an ever decreasing risk. Thus, genetic diseases can now be detected at a very early stage by chorion biopsy combined with genetic engineering, and direct foetal blood sampling with a needle guided by ultrasound increases our knowledge of foetal physiology and provides an access to antenatal pathology. In the forthcoming years a true antenatal medicine will no doubt develop, no longer to eliminate foetuses, but to treat and cure them.
在过去几年中，先天性异常的产前诊断取得了显著进展，这得益于细胞遗传学的进步，也得益于产科超声检查的迅速改进。借助高分辨率超声扫描仪，可以在孕期越来越早的时候进行各种干预，且风险不断降低。因此，现在可以通过绒毛膜活检结合基因工程在非常早期检测出遗传疾病，而超声引导下的经皮胎儿脐血穿刺术增加了我们对胎儿生理学的了解，并为产前病理学研究提供了途径。在未来几年，真正的产前医学无疑将会发展起来，不再是为了淘汰胎儿，而是为了治疗和治愈他们。
