Sentences with phrase «fetal abnormalities in»

In people, toxoplasmosis has been linked to schizophrenia, Alzheimer's Disease, Obsessive - Compulsive Disorder, and other neurodegenerative diseases, and can cause sudden abortion and fetal abnormalities in pregnant women.

New research has found that routine screening using a non-invasive test that analyzes fetal DNA in a pregnant woman's blood can accurately detect Down's syndrome and other genetic fetal abnormalities in the first trimester.

There was one stillbirth due to fetal abnormality in each group.

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One researcher notes that the supine position (lying on the back) may contribute significantly to hypotension and FHR abnormalities when an epidural is in place.73 Another found that the supine position (plus epidural) was associated with a significant decrease in the oxygen supply to the baby's brain (fetal cerebral oxygenation).74

A German study found uterine hyperstimulation occurred in 10 % of women during nipple stimulation, and in 1 % this was accompanied by reversible abnormalities in fetal heart rate patterns.

But it added: «Women need to be counselled on the unexpected emergencies — such as cord prolapse, fetal heart rate abnormalities, undiagnosed breech, prolonged labour and postpartum haemorrhage — which can arise during labour and can only be managed in a maternity hospital.

In Zika - infected mice, this betrayal appears to contribute to fetal abnormalities linked to the virus, researchers report online January 5 in Science ImmunologIn Zika - infected mice, this betrayal appears to contribute to fetal abnormalities linked to the virus, researchers report online January 5 in Science Immunologin Science Immunology.

«Advanced MRI can detect placental perfusion abnormalities in pregnancies complicated by fetal CHD: Powerful MRI technique shows blood flow complications before placenta damage is consolidated.»

Microcephaly is rare — occurring in 6 out of 10,000 live births in the U.S. — but suddenly there were reports of thousands of women in Brazil giving birth to babies with the birth defect, other severe fetal abnormalities or Guillain - Barre syndrome, a nervous system disorder.

Several studies had already pinned some of the visible abnormalities in clones on the absence of vital molecules that turn gene expression on and off during fetal development.

A new study performed in the Netherlands has linked exposure to residential air pollution during fetal life with brain abnormalities that may contribute to impaired cognitive function in school - age children.

«Air pollution linked to brain alterations and cognitive impairment in children: A study examines the relationship between air pollution exposure during fetal life, brain abnormalities and cognitive impairment.»

One theory of autistic savantism suggests that during fetal development or early in life, some developmental abnormality affects the brain's left side, resulting in the difficulties that many autistic people have with words and social interaction, functions typically processed by the left hemisphere.

Nicotine readily crosses the placenta into the fetal bloodstream, specifically targets fetal brain development, causing short - and long - term changes in cognition, and potentially contributes to other neurodevelopmental abnormalities.

In 2015, the Zika virus began spreading throughout the Americas and a potential link was seen between the virus and a significant increase in cases of fetal microcephaly, as well as other neurologic abnormalitieIn 2015, the Zika virus began spreading throughout the Americas and a potential link was seen between the virus and a significant increase in cases of fetal microcephaly, as well as other neurologic abnormalitiein cases of fetal microcephaly, as well as other neurologic abnormalities.

«Studies of fetuses and babies with the telltale small brains and heads of microcephaly in Zika - affected areas have found abnormalities in the cortex, and Zika virus has been found in the fetal tissue,» says Guo - li Ming, M.D., Ph.D., a professor of neurology, neuroscience, and psychiatry and behavioral science at Johns Hopkins» Institute for Cell Engineering.

Video: In March, the World Health Organization said the link between Zika and fetal abnormalities has not been proven, but «the circumstantial evidence is now overwhelming.»

After initially applying the genomic SNP chromosomal microarray only in fetuses with ultrasound abnormalities, since July 2012, we routinely performed the SNP array also in cases without fetal ultrasound anomalies where invasive prenatal diagnosis was indicated.

Developmental abnormalities are known to occur at various stages in fetal growth.

Lyn Chitty, Professor of Genetics and Fetal Medicine at the UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health and Great Ormond Street NHS Foundation Trust, has published extensively on prenatal diagnosis and ultrasound screening of fetal abnormalities, and was responsible for creating the fetal size standards now in use throughout the UK and beFetal Medicine at the UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health and Great Ormond Street NHS Foundation Trust, has published extensively on prenatal diagnosis and ultrasound screening of fetal abnormalities, and was responsible for creating the fetal size standards now in use throughout the UK and befetal abnormalities, and was responsible for creating the fetal size standards now in use throughout the UK and befetal size standards now in use throughout the UK and beyond.

Both considered whole grains, rye and rolled oats are rich in «regularity - enhancing fiber» and are excellent sources of iron and B vitamins like folic acid, which work to prevent maternal anemia, reduced fetal growth, and congenital abnormalities such as neural - tube and brain and heart defects.

Micropenis is likely caused by a hormonal abnormality during fetal gestation, says Arash Akhavein, MD, urologist at Comprehensive Urology in Los Angeles.

I found that in many other countries, vaginal breech birth still occurs and that when factors like fetal abnormality, uterine abnormality, etc are removed, vaginal breech birth carried about the same risk as breech birth by cesarean.

Low taurine levels result in small litter sizes, low birth weights or fetal abnormalities.

In humans, exposure to ethoxyquin may cause liver / kidney damage, skin cancers and leukemia, hair - loss, sight loss, fetal abnormalities and chronic diarrhea.

Other research The country's rampant air pollution is also a serious threat to pregnant women, increasing the risk of giving birth to under - weight infants and resulting in chromosomal abnormalities in fetal tissues, said studies conducted by Yale and Columbia Universities.

alcohol - related birth defects (ARBD) A term coined by the Institute of Medicine in 1996 that is used to describe a type of fetal alcohol spectrum disorders (FASDs) affecting individuals with confirmed maternal alcohol use and one or more congenital defects, including heart, bone, kidney, vision, or hearing abnormalities.

Iowa moved to further restrict coverage of abortion for Medicaid recipients in the state to only cases of life endangerment, rape and incest, and eliminated a long - standing provision in state law providing coverage in cases where there is a diagnosed fetal abnormality.

On the same grounds, Doe V. Bolton strikes down a 1968 abortion reform statute in the state of Georgia that had prohibited abortions, except in cases of medical necessity, rape, incest, and fetal abnormality.

When faced with a dangerous virus that can be sexually transmitted and cause significant fetal abnormalities, it should be common sense to invest in more family planning, not less.