I'm hoping for some advice/reassurance.
I had my 12 week scan last week and everything was fine. NT measurement was 1.7mm and everything else looked great. However, my bloods were, in the words of the sonographer, "bad" (she referred to them as such 3 times). My PAPP-A was 0.72 and my B-HCG was higher than it should have been. This put my odds of trisomy-21 at 1 in 196 (I'm 34 so my background was 1 in 494). The sonographer said that she wasn't concerned about the trisomy-21 chances because of the NT score and said that the hormone levels could have been affected by the fact I have placenta lakes. When I asked what that meant she breezily said "oh it's part of your placenta that doesn't work properly". I then asked if the hormone levels could be indicators of anything else and she said no, then went back to focussing on trisomy-21 and told me that I could get the Harmony test done privately.
I subsequently googled my results and discovered that both the low PAPP-A and placenta lakes can indicate an increased chance of late miscarriage, still birth and low birthweight. Most of the women I came across discussing their results had been referred to a consultant and given extra growth scans for monitoring. However, the sonographer said nothing about this to me and just seemed to want to rush me out of the room.
Has anyone had similar results? I'm not sure whether I should try and get referred to a consultant but wouldn't know where to start but I'm really stressing about it all.
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Low PAPP-A result and placenta lakes
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PenguinWatch · 28/01/2016 16:58
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