Sentences with word «gastroschisis»

An alarming new report from the CDC finds that the rate of a serious birth defect in the abdomen, called gastroschisis, has more than doubled.

A prospective, randomised, controlled, crossover trial was performed to compare the utility of the NRC with the GCC during simulated deliveries of extremely low birthweight infants and infants with gastroschisis.

Reality struck when I was just 12 weeks pregnant, when we found out my daughter had a birth defect (I hate that term) called gastroschisis.

Cleft lip and palate, clubfoot, limb defects, congenital heart defects, Down syndrome, gastroschisis (where the intestines are exposed through an opening in the abdomen) and imperforate anus (no opening from the intestines to the outside of the body) are but a few of the birth defects known to be the effects of smoking during pregnancy.