Sessions: 2 - 4 June 2008

Controversies in Prenatal Diagnosis

Conference sessions will include debates on current controversies in the field, including the following topics:

Is aneuploidy testing by PGD indicated for all infertile patients undergoing IVF? (Monday afternoon)
Featuring David Hill, ART Reproductive Center, Beverly Hills, CA USA and
Sjoerd Repping, Center for Reproductive Medicine, Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Should laser ablation of placental anastomoses be used in all cases of
twin to twin transfusion syndrome? (Tuesday Morning)
Featuring Yves Ville, Centre Hospitalier Intercommunal de Poissy-St Germain, Poissy, France and Anthony Johnson, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX USA
For prenatal diagnosis, should we offer less or more than metaphase karyotyping? (Tuesday Afternoon)
Featuring Caroline Ogilvie, Guy's & St Thomas' Hospital Trust, London, UK
and Dr Art Beaudet, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX USA
Should fetal surgery be done in all cases of severe congenital diaphragmatic hernia? (Wednesday Morning)
Featuring Jan Deprest, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium and
Allen Flake, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, PA USA

Conference sessions will include talks by leading experts and selected abstract presentations.

ISPD is proud to announce the participation of the following CONFIRMED speakers on conference days Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday.

Opening Plenary
- Enrique Gadow (Argentina) "The impact of prenatal diagnosis on the rate of congenital anomalies at birth"
- Magnus Westgren (Sweden) "Mesenchymal stem cells as in utero therapy for osteogenesis imperfecta" - Speaker of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada
Fetal Anomalies
- Daniela Prayer (Austria) "Role of fetal MRI in second trimester diagnosis of fetal anomalies"
- John Hyett (Australia) "First trimester diagnosis of fetal anomalies"
PGD
- Joy Delhanty (UK) "Chromosome analysis in PGD"
- Karen Sermon (Belgium) "PGD for monogeneic disorders"
Placental Function and Fetal Growth
- Peter Von Dadelzen (Canada) "Early screening and diagnosis of placental dysfunction"
- Wendy Robinson (Canada) "Placental expression of imprinted genes in IUGR"
Controversies in Prenatal Diagnosis One: "Is aneuploidy testing by PGD indicated for all infertile patients undergoing IVF?"
- For: David Hill (USA)
- Against: Sjoerd Repping (Netherlands)

Controversies in Prenatal Diagnosis Two: "Should laser ablation of placental anastomoses be used in all cases of twin to twin transfusion syndrome?"
- For all cases: Yves Ville (France)
- For higher stages only: Anthony Johnson (USA)
Multiple Gestation
- Jack Rychik (USA) "Refining the diagnosis of TTTS using fetal echo"
- Greg Ryan (Canada) "Monochorionic diamniotic twin pathology other than TTTS"
Molecular Cytogenetics
- Jan Friedman (Canada) "High resolution microarray"
- Charles Lee (USA) "CNVs in normal population"
Teratology
- Sonja Rasmussen (USA) "Obesity and birth defects"
- D Oepkes (Netherlands) "In utero parvovirus infection: Diagnosis, management and outcomes"
Screening for Aneuploidy
- Tony Borell (Spain) "First trimester sonographic markers in the detection of fetal aneuploidy"
- Dennis Lo (Hong Kong) "Use of single nucleotide polymorphism ratios to noninvasively detect Down syndrome"
Controversies in Prenatal Diagnosis Three: "For prenatal diagnosis, should we offer less or more than metaphase karyotyping?"
- For QF-PCR: Caroline Ogilvie (UK)
- For array CGH: Art Beaudet (USA)

Controversies in Prenatal Diagnosis Four: "Should fetal surgery be done in all cases of severe congenital diaphragmatic hernia?"
- For: Jan Deprest (Belgium)
- Against: Allen Flake (USA)
Prenatal Screening and Diagnosis for Single Gene Disorders
- Michael Berkenstadt (Israel) "Population screening for Fragile X"
- T Prior (USA) "SMA: Newborn vs prenatal screening"
Fetal Cells, mRNA and DNA in Maternal Circulation
- Diana Bianchi (USA) "Cell-free fetal nucleic acids as markers of fetal development"
- Sinuhe Hahn (Switzerland) "Cell-free nucleic acids as markers of preeclampsia"