A question that often concerns future parents and they ask the doctor, who performs a prenatal check to diagnose any abnormalities in their embryo, is whether or not it is possible to diagnose autism prenatally.
The specialized 1st trimester pregnancy ultrasound has now been established as a necessary test for future mothers. This test, which is performed from the 11th to the 13th week +6 days of pregnancy or when the embryo is 45 to 84mm, is said to be the test in which the probability of the presence of a Down syndrome fetus is calculated. But let’s talk about some misconceptions (“myths”) about this test.