Patient's question:
It took a lot of effort to get pregnant. Now I'm more than ten weeks pregnant. Today, when I went to the hospital for a prenatal check-up, the doctor said I needed to have a Down syndrome screening. Down syndrome. I want to ask, can Down syndrome screening during pregnancy detect it?Doctor's answer:
Previously, medical technology was not advanced, so Down syndrome children were only discovered during labor. Nowadays, medical technology allows Down syndrome to be detected during prenatal tests. The Down syndrome screening, after a blood test, can provide results within a week. If the risk coefficient for Down syndrome is relatively high, further amniocentesis will be conducted to carefully examine the fetus's chromosomes, which will then confirm whether the fetus has Down syndrome.