In 2017, Dr. Barbi Phelps-Sandall, an obstetrician in the San Francisco Bay area, encountered a patient at high risk for premature labor, leading her to use the new PreTRM blood test.
The PreTRM test tracks levels of specific proteins in the blood during the second trimester, helping to accurately assess premature birth risk and guide prenatal care decisions.
Phelps-Sandall now routinely offers the PreTRM test to all her patients, emphasizing its transformative impact on prenatal care by providing crucial information previously unavailable to both mothers and doctors.
Although the PreTRM test is not FDA-approved, it can be ordered by doctors as a laboratory-developed test, which is significant for personalized patient care.
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