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Two high pressure conundrums and a possible congenital link
- Source :
- Archives of Disease in Childhood - Education and Practice. 96:210-215
- Publication Year :
- 2010
- Publisher :
- BMJ, 2010.
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Abstract
- Although antenatal care and diagnosis have improved and many abnormalities are now anticipated infants are still born that pose diagnostic conundrums. We present one such scenario with complex diagnostic and management challenges. Emily was born at 35+6 weeks. This was the first pregnancy for her 19-year-old mum who had no significant medical or obstetric history. She was known to fetal medicine because of fetal growth retardation, with an estimated fetal weight at 33+4 weeks below the third percentile. Following a 3-week period of static growth labour was induced for fetal wellbeing. Shortly after induction following fetal bradycardia Emily was delivered by caesarean section. Emily weighed 1.58 kg (
- Subjects :
- medicine.medical_specialty
Hypertension, Pulmonary
medicine.medical_treatment
Basal Ganglia
Sepsis
Young Adult
Renal Artery
Pregnancy
medicine
Humans
Caesarean section
Pregnancy Complications, Infectious
Ultrasonography
Fetal Growth Retardation
business.industry
Obstetrics
Infant, Newborn
Fetal Bradycardia
medicine.disease
Thrombocytopenia
Surgery
Blood pressure
Platelet transfusion
Abdominal examination
Cytomegalovirus Infections
Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health
Female
Liver function
business
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 17430593 and 17430585
- Volume :
- 96
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Archives of Disease in Childhood - Education and Practice
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....33a9b86fc78bc498645326898fc92bce
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1136/adc.2010.184440