Diagnostic Tests and Procedures

What is Advanced Prenatal Diagnosis?

The Advanced Prenatal Diagnosis program at UCLA offers a multidisciplinary approach to diagnosing birth defects or genetic abnormalities in the growing fetus. This includes a team of maternal fetal medicine specialists, genetic counselors, geneticists, reproductive endocrinologists, and experts in prenatal cytogenetics and pathology.

Diagnostic Testing and Procedures

These include:

• Genetic Counseling
• Genetic Screening
  • Down Syndrome Screening
  • Sequential Screening
  • Cell Free DNA screening
  • First trimester and Nuchal Translucency ultrasound
  • Neural Tube Defect Screening
  • Second trimester anatomy ultrasound
  • Carrier Screening
• Diagnostic Testing
  • Amniocentesis
  • Chorionic Villus Sampling
  • Umbilical Cord Blood Sampling
  • Non-stress/contraction Stress Tests (fetal heart rate testing)
  • Multiple Marker Screening (MMS)
  • Ultrasound Examinations
  • Alpha-fetoprotein Testing
• Advanced genetic testing
  • FISH and karyotype
  • Microarray
  • Clinical exome sequencing
  • Single gene panels