The Fetal Medicine Centre provides care for pregnant women by doctors who have trained in ultrasound scanning and fetal medicine under Professor Kypros Nicolaides.
Our ultrasound scans are performed to the highest standards and are backed up with informative and sensitive counselling.
All profits are donated to the UK charity The Fetal Medicine Foundation (FMF).
All our scans are performed by our highly experienced sonographers.
Non-invasive Prenatal Testing analyses cell free DNA in maternal blood and gives a strong indication of whether the baby is at high or low chance of having trisomy 21 (Down syndrome), trisomy 18 (Edwards syndrome) or trisomy 13 (Patau syndrome).
Chorion villus sampling (CVS) involves the examination of chorionic villi (placental tissue). Both the baby and placenta (afterbirth) originate from the same cell and so the chromosomes present in the cells of the placenta are the same as those of the baby.
Amniocentesis involves the examination of cells in the fluid from around the fetus (amniotic fluid).
The cells in the amniotic fluid originate from the baby and so the chromosomes present in these cells are the same as those of the baby.
This Includes the scan and Non-invasive Prenatal Testing undertaken in the same appointment. Please note in twin pregnancies there is an extra charge of £50.
NIPT is only offered with an ultrasound scan.
