Open AccessETHICAL 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 , medicine , abortion , incidence (geometry) , pregnancy , fetus , obstetrics , ethical dilemma , urinary system , aborted fetus , 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.