To the best of the present evidence, therapy, medication, surgery, or assistive technology are different services available for management of birth defects and in most cases essential paediatric surgery can avert early mortality and long-term disability [11]. The Human capital approach to repair cle...
It is well known that a stillbirth affects women’s mental health in the short term with increased risk of anxiety, depression and posttraumatic stress [1,2,3,4,5]. Although psychological sequelae persist for some women [2, 6], symptoms of anxiety and depression seem to decrease within the...
This detection rate rose by 83% from 2.4% to 4.4%, p = 0.020 in term (> 36 weeks) pregnancies, and remained unchanged in the preterm (4.5% versus 4.0%, p = 0.604). The use of additional follow up consultations and admissions for induction as a consequence of the initial consultation ...
There are numerous birth complications attributed to illegal drug use, including pre-term delivery, low birth weight, smaller-than-normal head size, miscarriages, genital and urinary tract deformities, and nervous system damage [87]. For cocaine, we now know that early scientific reports were exagg...
Most Bradford women attend for antenatal care and give birth at the Bradford Royal Infirmary, which has approximately 5,800 births per year. Women are eligible for recruitment if they plan to give birth here. Babies born from March 2007 are eligible to participate, recruitment is planned to con...
) after reports of reduced intrauterine movement. He was delivered at term by Caesarean section, due to poor positioning. At birth bilateral humeral fractures were noted. He had a diagnosis of osteogenesis imperfecta, and followed up with alendronate treatment. He was referred to pediatric neurology...
Whenever prenatal diagnosis is made, it is advisable to direct the mother to a tertiary perinatal center in which all the necessary obstetric, neonatal and surgical skills are concentrated [173]. Gestation should be prolonged until near term if possible [174] (this can be hard to achieve in ...
[83,84]. The rate of stillborn piglets increases as duration of farrowing and interval between births increase. Baxter and Edwards [82] and Vanderhaeghe et al. [85] reviewed literature demonstrating that stillborn pigs are a multifactorial problem, which includes litter size, parity, sow body ...
The number of infants born with ventricular septal defects and the number of stillborn infants was slightly higher in the omeprazole- exposed infants than the expected number in this population. A population-based retrospective cohort study covering all live births in Denmark from 1996 to 2009, ...
suffered noticeable damage, which led to a decline in the rate of conception, an increase in the rate of abortion and increases in stillborn births. It is suspected that significant early embryonic loss occurs in cattle and sheep grazing locoweed, and there are documented effects of swainsonine ...