title: [Prenatal diagnosis of triploidy].
abstract: Triploidy is one of the most common chromosomal numerical aberrations, resulting usually from one out off two main mechanisms: aberrant segregation of chromosomes during meiosis or from the fertilization of one egg by two sperms. Triploidy usually causes prenatal death. In present paper the methods of non-invasive and invasive prenatal diagnosis of triploidy are described. We also report the case of triploid fetus, diagnosed by ultrasound visualisation followed by amniocenthesis and cytogenetic analysis.
authors.affiliation: Zakład Genetyki Katedry Patofizjologii Akademii Medycznej we Wroclawiu. slezak@gen.am.wroc.pl
authors.forename: Ryszard
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Slezak
authors.forename: Jerzy
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Florjański
authors.forename: Jerzy
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Zalewski
authors.forename: Maria
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Sasiadek
authors.forename: Jerzy
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Heimrath
mesh_terms: D000015:Abnormalities, Multiple / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000196:embryology; D000026:Abortion, Habitual / Q000235:genetics* / Q000473:pathology; D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D005333:Fetus / Q000002:abnormalities* / Q000473:pathology; D006801:Humans; D011123:Polyploidy; D011247:Pregnancy; D011296:Prenatal Diagnosis