Patient's question:
A 35-year-old woman is not in good mental state and feels sick. After checking, which disease was found? Please ask: Can the triple screen test detect cerebral palsy?Doctor's answer:
Down syndrome screening is mainly used to screen for children with trisomy 21. Children with trisomy 21 may exhibit growth and development delays, intellectual disability (also known as being "slow-witted"), but this does not mean that intellectual disability is the same as cerebral palsy. "Cerebral palsy" was a term used in the past, but it has gradually been abandoned. However, because the term is simple and was widely understood in the past, it is still used. Cerebral palsy can be caused by conditions such as encephalitis, cerebral edema, hypoxia, or severe jaundice in the fetus or infant. This is something that trisomy 21 screening (prenatal Down syndrome screening) cannot detect.