Showing posts with label congenital malformations. Show all posts
Showing posts with label congenital malformations. Show all posts
Sunday, August 27, 2017

Trying to Understand Stillbirths

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Stillbirths affects 1% of all pregnancies in US, amounting to nearly 24,000 deaths every year. Recent advances in medicine has brough...
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Monday, August 7, 2017

Older paternal age does not increase risk of adverse perinatal outcome

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Couples can now be reassured regarding their concerns for adverse perinatal outcomes because of advancing paternal age says the resul...
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Thursday, June 15, 2017

Obstructive sleep apnea in pregnancy linked to higher risk of congenital malformations: News from the sleep conference.

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 N ewborns of mothers with sleep apnea have higher chances of requiring resuscitation at birth, longer hospital stay and 26% higher risk...
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Thursday, June 8, 2017

Baby born with absent nose dies at age two: A review of literature about this extremely rare anomaly

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Baby Eli who was born with a absent nose died recently at age two. Absent nose or Arhinia is congenital absence of external nose, nasa...
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Tuesday, June 21, 2016

No evidence of congenital anomalies with Zika infection in third trimester.

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The first outbreak of Zika virus occurred in South America occurred in Brazil in May 2015 subsequently in October Columbia confirmed 156 c...
Thursday, April 14, 2016

CDC Confirms the link between Zika infection and microcephaly.

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Zika has been linked to microcephaly since Brazil reported a sudden increase in number of infants born with microcephaly in September ...
Sunday, January 10, 2016

Oral contraceptives use around and during pregnancy does not appear to be teratogenic.

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Image in the public domain, courtesy of Wikimedia Commons 2010 saw the 50 th anniversary of the contraceptive pill. ‘The...