16 iul. IS A NATIONAL PRENATAL SCREENING PROGRAM ACHIEVABLE IN ROMANIA?
Alina Veduţă*, G. Peltecu*,**
* Filantropia Clinical Hospital, Bucharest
** Carol Davila University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Bucharest
The progress of prenatal diagnosis has been remarkably fast. Doctors as well as national health
care systems have to keep up with rapidly evolving technologies and medical paradigms, in the interest of
patients (1).
The ideas of universal prenatal screening and of universal ultrasound evaluation in pregnancy are
actually not new (2). Screening for common genetic anomalies and detection of major fetal structural defects
are thought to improve pregnancy outcome, therefore they are considered good practice in prenatal care
across Western Europe and in other developed countries (3-5). Earlier diagnosis (6-7) as well as prediction
and prevention of medical complications in pregnancy (8-9) are nowadays being implemented in the routine
prenatal care.
