has anyone survived trisomy 18
I terminated my pregnancy. The majority die before birth or very shortly after.
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Currently the longest anyone has lived with trisomy 18 is into their 20s.
. Trisomy 18 is usually not inherited but occurs by chance. I am 21 weeks pregnant 36 years old and yesterday my Doc told me I had tested positive PENTA test for trisomy 18 1 in 92 chance. Between 60 and 75 survive to their first week.
Mosaic trisomy 18 happens. I also highly recommend counseling due to how traumatic learning this about your baby is. Trisomy 18 may be a life-threatening condition.
With trisomy 18 also known as Edwards syndrome only 10 live for a year after birth and they dont even give statistics past one year. For those infants who do survive they are at risk for any number of abnormalities but the typical. Around 5 to 10 of babies with trisomy 18 are able to survive through the first year.
It is not hereditary so they didnt do it and it is very very unlikely to. Babies can be born with an extra copy of chromosome 18 in each cell in the body. It is more common in pregnancy but many affected fetuses do not survive to term.
Other times babies live to delivery but they may pass away a few hours or days later. Infants with T13 who survived the first week had nearly a 60 chance of neonatal survival and children with trisomy 18 who survived the first week had better than a 70 chance. Some affected die before birth or within the first month of life.
I have had false positives before but I am a little scared. This is called complete trisomy 18 and causes more serious health outcomes. Some babies with trisomy 18 will die before birth and be born stillborn.
I have already had an ultrasound with a genetic counselor and he said everything was fine. Trisomy 18 occurs in about 1 in 5000 live-born infants. Children with either phenotype who survived the first year had a very good chance of living to age 5.
About 10 or more may survive one year and a small number of adults usually females with Trisomy 18 have lived into their twenties and thirties although they have significant developmental delays and require full-time care. Just now true positive T21. Nov 5 2009 at 600 AM.
Of those pregnancies surviving into the third trimester nearly 40 of babies diagnosed with Edwards syndrome trisomy 18 dont survive during labor and nearly one-third of the surviving babies deliver preterm. Today the majority of fetuses with trisomy 18 are diagnosed prior to birth and research indicates that many of these fetuses do not survive to birth. Although women of all ages can have a child with trisomy 18 the chance of having a child with this condition increases as a woman gets older.
Some individuals have survived to their teenage years and beyond with a range of medical and developmental needs. This is a true finding as amnio is the gold standard of diagnosis for these conditions. The survival rate varies for babies born with Edwards syndrome trisomy 18.
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