Publications by authors named "R Drahonsky"

Objective: To evaluate the timing of referrals for prenatal genetic counselling.

Method: The data of 406 consecutive patients referred because of a family history of genetic disease or a suspected risk factor for genetic disease other than an unfavourable first trimester screening outcome were retrospectively analysed.

Results: In 37.

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Objective: To provide new insights into how chromosomal aberrations affect fetal development, as well as for the counseling of parents in comparable situations, it is important to characterize and report the genotypes of fetuses with clinical anomalies.

Methods: Molecular cytogenetic analyses in a fetus with congenital diaphragmatic hernia (CDH).

Results: This report describes the first case of a deletion of the region q26.

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Objectives: To add to the knowledge of chromosomal abnormalities associated with Dandy-Walker malformation.

Methods: Molecular cytogenetic analyses of a chorionic villus sampling and of an amniocentesis of a fetus with Dandy-Walker malformation and abnormal somatic development.

Results: All cells examined showed a 47, XY, +idic(9p)(pter-->q12::q12-->pter) de novo karyotype.

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Partial trisomy of the long arm of chromosome 9 represents a very rare and heterogeneous group of chromosomal aberrations. Associated clinical features include learning disability and pyloric stenosis. We present the first patient to be reported with a duplication of the chromosome region 9q22.

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For counselling of parents, as well as to basically understand how chromosome aneuploidies affect embryonic or fetal development, it is of great importance to analyse and collect genotypes of fetuses with clinical anomalies. This report describes the first prenatal diagnosis of a supernumerary chromosome 9 with deletion of the chromosome region 9q34. Ultrasound examination in the 13th week of gestation detected increased nuchal translucency of 6.

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