Hospital said one test result was enough before termination, says couple

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Controversy continues over National Maternity Hospital treatment as second test showed no fatal foetal anomaly

controversy say they were told there was no need for them to wait for a second test result before proceeding with a termination., they were faced with a decision of whether to proceed with a termination or to await the result of a second test, which had been performed on the same tissue sample. This takes another nine days to arrive after the result of the first test.

This phenomenon is known as mosaicism, and arises when the genetic make-up of the placenta, which was sampled for the test, differs from that of the foetus. The CVS test is regarded as 99 per cent accurate, but in 0.15 per cent of cases, a false positive can occur, according to the research literature.

They maintain they were prepared to wait for the result of a further test but were told the diagnosis from the initial test was “conclusive”.

 

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Yet another major 'incident' affecting a couple for the rest of their lives ...

Bet they regret that now. Legislation on a life and death issue should contain robust safeguards and guidelines. Harris was in too much of a rush to steamroll it through he would listen to nobody - the FG way. NCH, repeat smears, broadband.....

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