Research Article

Gestational Outcomes of Pregnant Women Who Have Had Invasive Prenatal Testing for the Prenatal Diagnosis of Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy

Table 1

Percentages, demographic features, and prenatal diagnostic test results of the pregnancies in chorionic villus sampling (CVS) and amniocentesis (AC) groups, represented as median and minimum-maximum values.

Prenatal Diagnostic
Procedure
CVS
(n=66)
AC
(n=23)
P value

Percentage74.1%25.9%ā€‰

Age (years) of
mother
31 (19 to 43)28 (18 to 41)0.256

Gravida3 (1 to 7)1 (1 to 4)0.890

Parity1 (0 to 4)1 (0 to 4)0.822

Gestational week of
the prenatal test
12 (11 to 14)16 (16 to 21)< 0.001

Disease-positive
fetuses
6 (9.2%)2 (8.8%)ā€‰

CVS: chorion villus sampling and AC: amniocentesis.