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ETHICAL DILEMMA IN THE PREGNANCY WITH FETAL MALFORMATIONS

Author(s) -

Georgiana Russu,

R Russu

Publication year - 2016

Publication title -

romanian journal of pediatrics

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

eISSN - 2069-6175

pISSN - 1454-0398

DOI - 10.37897/rjp.2016.1.3

Subject(s) - congenital malformations , abortion , medicine , incidence (geometry) , fetus , pregnancy , obstetrics , ethical dilemma , aborted fetus , urinary system , prenatal diagnosis , prenatal ultrasound , pediatrics , genetics , physics , political science , law , optics , biology , endocrinology

Congenital heart malformations, with an incidence of 6-8/1,000 births, represent about 30% of cases of infant mortality due to congenital abnormalities. Of these, most require immediate corrective surgery in the neonatal period. Kidney and urinary tract malformations have an incidence of approximately 1%. The development of ultrasound techniques allowed for prenatal diagnosis of many fetal malformations, some of them life-threatening. Thus, important ethical problems occur, concerning abortion or guidance of the pregnant woman to a center where the newborn will be operated in the first hours of life.

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