ACOG Clinical Guidelines at a Glance: Prenatal diagnostic testing for genetic disorder | Contemporary OB/GYN

ACOG Clinical Guidelines at a Glance: Prenatal diagnostic testing for genetic disorder | Contemporary OB/GYN

ACOG Clinical Guidelines at a Glance: Prenatal diagnostic testing for genetic disorder

June 15, 2017

By Joe Leigh Simpson, MD

The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) and the Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine (SMFM) have recently revisited and updated clinical information and recommendations on several related documents: Practice Bulletin 162, which will be reviewed in this communication; Screening for Fetal Aneuploidies (Practice Bulletin 163); Microarrays and Next Generation Sequencing Technology (Committee Opinion 682); and Carrier Screening for Genetic Conditions (Committee Opinion 691). In Practice Bulletin 162, Drs Mary Norton and Marc Jackson are the acknowledged authors on behalf of the ACOG Committee on Genetics and SMFM. Practice Bulletin 162 should be applauded for recommendations and conclusions that previous ACOG bulletins could be accused of obviating in deference to tradition.