Margarita Brankova
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She graduated the Medical Academy in Sofia, and started her career in Kostenets as obstetrician. After a successful contest she became Assistant Professor in the Maichin Dom. She works mainly with complicated pregnancies. In 1983 she acquires specialization in the Institute, Prague, where she studied methods for diagnosis of congenital and hereditary diseases in children before birth - photoscopy and early amniocentesis at 17-18 weeks of gestation. Until then, she performed amniocentesis, but mainly in late pregnancy in Rh-incompatibility between mother and fetus, and maturity of the fetus. In 1986, she trained by Dutch specialists method for chorionic biopsy in the first trimester of pregnancy (an ancient Chinese method retrieved from White in England and in Italy by Brambati and Simoni). In 1987 the method was introduced by her for early diagnosis of congenital and hereditary diseases in the fetus before birth. By this method she specializes in “Erasmus” Institute, Department of Genetics in Rotterdam, Netherlands. In applying this technique, she is working with M.D. V. Nikolov, brilliant ultrasound diagnostic. Both continue to work together in the hospital Sv.Lazar.