Tolerance of uncertainty: a unifying theme in pregnancy care.
Tolerance of uncertainty: a unifying theme in pregnancy care.
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10.1111/1471-0528.16474
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2021-01
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Gray KJ
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High-risk obstetricians are accustomed to uncertainty—in fact, we have limited ability to predict the outcomes of even the most common clinical scenarios we encounter. For example: when will a short cervix lead to a periviable delivery? When will delivery occur following preterm premature rupture of membranes? Which macrosomic infants will experience a shoulder dystocia during vaginal birth? When will a term patient go into spontaneous labor?Genetics is a tool that has dramatically changed the predictive capabilities of obstetricians over the past decade. Expanded carrier screening (ECS) detects couples who are at risk for having children with a severe, early-onset heritable disease. Cell-free fetal DNA (ie, noninvasive prenatal testing, NIPT) predicts fetal aneuploidy as early as 10 weeks gestation. Chromosomal microarray (CMA) and exome sequencing (WES) diagnose prenatal genetic disorders in fetuses with structural anomalies that previously were detected postnatally or not at all.