Early Pregnancy Scan + percept (whole-genome NIPT) at OMNI Ultrasound
percept NIPT service is different
percept NIPT service is different percept is the NIPT option for those who want a more comprehensive chromosome screening test for their pregnancy. It is a service, not just a test, which is delivered with with complete clinical support.
Costs
Early pregnancy scan plus percept NIPT test $449
1st trimester anatomy scan $340
How to arrange the percept NIPT at OMNI Ultrasound?
OMNI will perform an early pregnancy scan at 10+ weeks as well as take the blood for the percept NIPT testing.
An SMS link for payment of $449 will be sent to you when your sample arrives at VCGS.
Book your detailed 1st trimester anatomy scan at ~13 weeks gestation and OMNI will go through your percept NIPT test results at that visit.
Percept NIPT offers routine assessment of all 23 pairs of chromosomes. This genome-wide approach can detect the broadest range of chromosomal conditions when compared to standard NIPT options.
Why VCGS?
VCGS is a non-for-profit specialist laboratory and genetics service, located at The Royal Children’s Hospital in Melbourne.
With percept NIPT, you will be supported by VCGS dedicated reproductive genetic counsellors, from pre-test counselling through to personalised post-test follow up, at no additional cost.
percept NIPT is an Australian genome-wide NIPT service, which combines customised bioinformatics and expert cytogenomics interpretation to deliver clinically relevant results.
Condous performs Advanced Endosurgery procedures for women needing intervention for pelvic masses, adnexal pathology, severe endometriosis or hysterectomy. He also runs ‘Hands on’ Live Sheep Laparoscopic Workshops for gynaecologists at Camden Veterinarian School. Having completed an undergraduate degree with the University of Adelaide, he left Australia in 1993 and moved to London where he completed his training in Obstetrics and Gynaecology. From 2001 to 2003 Condous worked as a Senior Research Fellow at St George’s Hospital, London. At St George’s he set up the Acute Gynaecology Unit, the first in the United Kingdom. It was also during this time that he developed an interest in Early Pregnancy and especially the management of pregnancies of unknown location (PULs). Condous has developed many mathematical models for the prediction of outcome of PULs which have been featured in numerous peer review journals. In 2005, he returned to Australia where he completed his Laparoscopic Fellowship at the Centre for Advanced Reproductive Endosurgery, Royal North Shore, Sydney.
Condous was appointed as a Consultant Gynaecologist and Senior Lecturer at Nepean Hospital in 2006 and soon was made Associate Professor. In 2010, he was made Departmental Head of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at Nepean Hospital. He obtained the MRCOG in 1999 and was made FRANZCOG in 2005. In 2009, he was awarded his Doctorate in Medicine (MD), University of London, for his thesis entitled: “The management of pregnancies of unknown location and the development of new mathematical models to predict outcome”.
Condous has edited three books including the “Handbook of Early Pregnancy Care”, published over 100 papers in international journals and is internationally renowned for his work in Early Pregnancy. He is the Associate Editor for Gynaecologic Obstetric Investigation, which is a European based journal, as well as the Australasian Journal of Ultrasound in Medicine (AJUM). He is on the organising committee and is an invited speaker at the International Society of Ultrasound in Obstetrics and Gynaecology (ISUOG) Scientific meeting in Sydney 2013. His current research interests relate to the management of ectopic pregnancy, 1st trimester growth, PULs and miscarriage and the use of transvaginal ultrasound (in particular sonovaginography, to predict posterior compartment deep infiltrating rectovaginal endometriosis).Condous is also actively involved with post-graduate education including the annual running of the Early Pregnancy and Gynaecological Ultrasound Interactive Courses for Sonologists, Radiologists, Sonographers and Gynaecologists in Australia.