Prenatal Sonographic Detection of Birth Defects in 18 Hospitals From South America

Prenatal sonographic detection of birth defects in 18 hospitals from South America.

OBJECTIVE The purpose of this study was to assess the accuracy of prenatal sonographic diagnosis of birth defects and the gestational age at detection according to the health insurance schemes of mothers in 450 malformed neonates from 18 South American hospitals on the basis of prenatal sonographic records. METHODS Between July 2000 and December 2003, 18 hospitals included in the Latin Americ...

Prenatal Nutrition and Birth Defects

Evidence of human birth defects dating back over three thousand years is reported in archeological literature. Excavated ruins of ancient Babylon revealed detailed reports of infant defects.1 Achondroplastic dwarfs (failure to develop healthy cartilage at the ends of the long bones, resulting in a form of congenital dwarfism) have been unearthed in ancient Egyptian tombs. Pictures drawn on anci...

Growth of Head Circumference, Weight and Height from Birth to 18 Months in the South of Iran

Background: Assessing the growth of infants is a main parameter in their health assessment. Thus, we have studied the growth condition of children from born to 18 months in this research in Bandar Abbas, Iran, 2015. Methods: In this descriptive study, we have selected 104 case records from the dataset of health center number 8 of BandarAbbas by means of simple randomized sampling. All data abou...

New Insight from Using Spatiotemporal Image Correlation in Prenatal Screening of Fetal Conotruncal Defects

Sonographic Findings in Partial Type of Trisomy 18