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Congenital Anomalies Admitted to Intensive Neonatal Care Unit in Babylon Maternity and Pediatric Teaching Hospital……………………………………………………...…………………………… | ||
| Kerbala Journal of Medicine | ||
| Article 8, Volume 2, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 594-598 PDF (0 K) | ||
| Authors | ||
| Bushra J. AL- Rubaii; Yahya A. AL-Tufaily; Abdul kareem A. Jasim Abushrayda; Mohammad Fakhri | ||
| Abstract | ||
| background: The number of recognizable patterns of malformations have more than tripled during the last 25 years. The potential prenatal effect of various drugs, chemicals and environmental agents is better appreciated and the number of genetic and non genetic defects has increased. Aim of the study: to study the prevalence of the structural defects in the live newborns in Babylon city. Materials and Methods: Our study provides the structural defects that have been detected in live newborns referred from the labor room and operative theater to the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) within one year. Information were taken from the caregivers in a uniform list, examination of the newborn by pediatrician and analysis of the data using chi square. Results: During one year, 70 live newborns with birth defects admitted to NICU. Thirty- four of them with neural tube defects (49%), cleft lip and / or cleft palate nine cases (12.8%), achondroplasia six cases(8.5%), Down Syndrome five cases(7.1%), ambiguous genitalia three cases( 4.3%), arythrogryposis multiplex three cases( 4.3%) ,imperforated anus two cases(2.9%), Prunbelly Syndrome two case(2.9%), phacomelia, genovalgum, congenital heart disease, icthyosis each one case (1.4%). Conclusion: Most patients with congenital anomalies had neural tube defects, necessitating stress on preconception folate supplementation | ||
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