GENITOURINARY TRACT DYSMORPHOLOGY AND MATERNAL COCAINE USE

Maternal cocaine use during breastfeeding.

QUESTION In my practice several patients have struggled with cocaine abuse during their pregnancies. One woman, now postpartum, wants to breastfeed her infant. Despite being abstinent for the final few months of her pregnancy, I am concerned about the potential adverse effects on her child if she happens to relapse. What is the current evidence about the risks of cocaine exposure during breastf...

Maternal cocaine use and mother-toddler aggression.

This study examined the direct and indirect associations between maternal cocaine use during pregnancy and mother-toddler aggression in an interactive context at 2 years of child age. We hypothesized that in addition to direct effects of cocaine exposure on maternal and child aggression, the association between maternal cocaine use and mother-toddler aggression may be indirect via higher matern...

Genitourinary and Renal Tract Disorders

Use of computers in dysmorphology.

As a consequence of the increasing power and decreasing cost of digital computers, dysmorphologists have begun to explore a wide variety of computerised applications in clinical genetics. Of considerable interest are developments in the areas of syndrome databases, expert systems, literature searches, image processing, and pattern recognition. Each of these areas is reviewed from the perspectiv...

Antifibrinolytic therapy in genitourinary tract surgery.

Severe generalised haemorrhage associated with plasma proteolytic activity after thoracic surgery, operations for hyperplasia or carcinoma of the prostate, gastrointestinal or pancreatic resection, and other operations was reported in the early 1950s.1-3 Such plasma proteolytic activity is usually part of a disseminated intravascular coagulation syndrome. Sometimes, however, the local fibrinoly...