Description
Natera Panorama Test
The Natera Panorama NIPT Test is a prenatal DNA screening blood test. It provides you with information about the likelihood that your baby has certain genetic conditions based on a maternal blood sample (a simple blood test from mum-to-be). Non-invasive prenatal testing (NIPT) uses this blood sample from the mother to analyse DNA from the placenta (afterbirth) for certain chromosome conditions such as Down Syndrome, Patau Syndrome and Edward Syndrome that could affect a baby’s health.
Non-invasive prenatal screening can be helpful in learning more about your baby’s health. It can help you to consider all of your options, how to manage your pregnancy and consider if special management or care is needed. Non-invasive prenatal screening is safe and usually involves just a simple blood test. Your results are usually available about 2 weeks after the test. We advise all parents-to-be to learn about prenatal screening before undertaking any test and it is vital that your results are properly communicated and explained.
Here at Innermost Healthcare, our NIPT Panorama Test from Natera includes:
• the opportunity to discuss prenatal screening before you undertake the test with an experienced Consultant in Fetal Medicine
• the Panorama Test (learn more about the test below)
• fetal gender (optional)
• an early viability or growth scan (scan selection depends on your stage in pregnancy)
• the opportunity to discuss your results with an experienced Consultant in Fetal Medicine
• information about your options and support with your choices
Please make sure that you read all of the information here on on the first trimester NIPT page.
What does the Panorama Test screen for?
Singleton pregnancies
• Trisomy 21 (Down syndrome)
• Trisomy 18 (Edwards syndrome)
• Trisomy 13 (Patau syndrome)
• Triploidy
• Monosomy X (Turner syndrome)
• Sex chromosome trisomies
• Microdeletions, including 22q11.2 deletion syndrome
• Gender (optional)*
Twin pregnancies
• Non identical or fraternal twins
• Trisomy 21 (Down syndrome)
• Trisomy 18 (Edwards syndrome)
• Trisomy 13 (Patau syndrome)
• Gender of each twin (optional)
If our screening finds that your twins are identical, Panorama can additionally screen for:
• Monosomy X (Turner syndrome)
• Sex chromosome trisomies
• 22q11.2 deletion syndrome
Egg donor or surrogate pregnancies
• Trisomy 21 (Down syndrome)
• Trisomy 18 (Edwards syndrome)
• Trisomy 13 (Patau syndrome)
• Gender (optional)*
Microdeletions
A small, missing piece of a chromosome is called a microdeletion. Unlike Down syndrome, which occurs more frequently in mothers who are 35 and older, microdeletions occur in pregnancies at the same rate for mothers of any age. Panorama screens for up to five microdeletion syndromes associated with serious health problems:
• 22q11.2 deletion (DiGeorge) syndrome
• 1p36 deletion syndrome
• Angelman syndrome
• Prader-Willi syndrome
• Cri-du-chat syndrome
Conditions Screened for by Panorama Extended (in green)
Exclusions
Panorama NIPT will not work in pregnancies complicated by a vanishing twin.
