Serological soft marker

The term Serological soft marker is in the prenatal diagnosis used and refers to those features, the antenatal ( prenatal through investigations of) Proof blood or serum is the pregnant woman asked and with a statistically slight increase in the likelihood of being a chromosome specificity and / or physical malformations and / or certain diseases in the unborn baby .

Serological soft markers are often detected or excluded using a double test or triple test . Serological soft markers appearing in isolation, i.e. corresponding peculiarities that exist without any further abnormalities, are usually harmless. Combined serological soft markers, i.e. corresponding peculiarities that exist in connection with other peculiarities, increase the likelihood of changes in the baby.

See also

• sonographic soft marker , list of syndromes

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• Gabriele Grünebaum, Loay Okko: My Pregnancy - Day by Day , Schlütersche Verlagsgesellschaft , 2010 ( p. 121 )
• Rolf Becker, Walter Fuhrmann, Wolfgang Holzgreve u. a .: Prenatal diagnosis and therapy - human genetic counseling, etiology and pathogenesis of malformations, invasive, non-invasive and sonographic diagnosis as well as therapy in utero . 1995, ISBN 3-8047-1357-2 .
• Franziska Voigt, Matthias W. Beckmann, Tamme W. Goecke: Soft markers and serum biochemistry - pregnancy between risk and (un) certainty. Frauenheilkunde up2date 2 (2011), pp. 74-84, doi : 10.1055 / s-0031-1271422

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