Inside Precision Medicine August 12, 2024
When Sadia Haqnawaz went in for her 20-week scan, she heard words that no pregnant woman wants to hear.
“It was quite quiet for a long time and the sonographer said that he’s having trouble looking at the scan because there’s no fluid, there’s no amniotic fluid. And as soon as he said that, I said, ‘I think I know what this is,’” she recalled.
At this point, her sister had already lost two babies to a genetic condition called autosomal recessive polycystic kidney disease, but no one had read anything into it.
“We always assumed it was an issue with her and her husband, never assumed that it was the wider family and that [it] was our limited understanding...
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