Some congenital malformations

Congenital Malformations

Some are born monsters, some achieve monstrosity; others have monsters thrust upon them! I put myself in the last category. When I first went to work at Southmead Hospital some twelve years ago I was no more or less interested in monsters and congenital malformations than in a great many other things. I soon found however, that this problem was indeed thrust upon me. Monsters and malformations ...

Congenital Malformations

In this country today if a child survives the first 4 weeks after birth he has a very good chance of 70 years of life, but to attain this he still has to negotiate the hazardous perinatal period. The perinatal mortality survey for England, Scotland and Wales showed that the highest single cause of first week deaths is congenital malformation, constituting nearly 25 per cent of deaths in March 1...

Congenital Malformations

The complacency with which congenital anomalies were once interpreted as expressions of faulty inheritance was rudely shaken in 1940. A convincing demonstration had just occurred in Australia that German measles contracted early in pregnancy by the mother may initiate congenital cataract , deafness, or congenital heart disease in the fetus. A great area for medical exploration had opened. To ap...

Risk tables for genetic counselling in some common congenital malformations.

In genetic counselling, estimation of recurrence risks for the common congenital malformations depends on the empiric risks since the mode of inheritance is usually not known. However, the recurrence risk in any particular family depends on the family history, the sex of affected individuals, on the severity of the disease in the family, and on several other factors. The object of this paper is...

Some congenital malformations necessitating emergency operations in the newborn period.