Maternal Fragile X Carrier: NEXT STEPS

Podcast: Dr. Chapa's OBGYN No Spin Podcast · Hector Chapa

Opublikowano: 2026-10-31

Today, we’re diving into a topic that has completely transformed prenatal care over the past decade—non-invasive prenatal testing, or NIPT. Thanks to recent technological leaps, cfDNA, cell-free fetal DNA, is giving us unprecedented visibility through just a simple maternal blood draw. Take Fetal Focus by Natera, for example, or the UNITY Reflex Screen from BillionToOne. These options offer single-gene NIPT that can evaluate fetal risk for specific autosomal recessive conditions, like cystic fibrosis, spinal muscular atrophy, or sickle cell disease, to better risk stratify the fetus without going immediately to an invasive diagnostic test. Similarly, The UNITY CONF...