THE IMPORTANCE OF GENETIC COUNSELING IN COUPLES COMPLAINING FROM HABITUAL ABORTIONS

MEHMET ALİ ERGUN, YASEMİN SOYSAL, G DİDEM AKAY, NECAT İMİRZALIOĞLU

Gynecology Obstetrics & Reproductive Medicine - 2005;11(2):90-92

Gazi University Faculty of Medicine, Department of Medical Genetics, Ankara, Turkey

 

Objective: To study the aborted material of patients complaining from habitual abortion. Study Design: Aborted materials obtained from ninety patients, having ?3 spontaneous pregnancy losses, and the parents of the cases that balanced chromosomal translocations were diagnosed were included in this study for cytogenetic analysis. Results: Spontaneous aborted materials were studied and in 8.8% of the materials structural chromosomal abnormalities were found. Conclusion: Prenatal and postnatal cytogenetic analysis of balanced translocation carriers is very important for genetic counseling of their families and relatives.