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Genetic Disorder Severe Mental
1,175 wordsTo the Parents or Legal Guardians of Patient XC 902 -V 42 In our extensive testing it was revealed to us that your son suffers from a genetic disorder called Trisomy 13 or Patau's Syndrome. Trisomy 13 is a syndrome caused by an extra 13 th chromosome. As you may be aware that humans have 23 chromosomes in pairs of two. In your son's case the 13 chromosome has and extra pair. Normally it is thought that a Trisomy occurs when, at conception, either the father's sperm or the mother's egg contained ...
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Fetal Alcohol Syndrome Urinary Tract
1,058 wordsIn this paper I will tell facts about the harm and danger mothers put their children thru when deciding to drink alcohol, while they are pregnant. I will tell some of the symptoms and characteristics of this bad syndrome. What happens when the child grows up and starts school and then what it is like as an adult. This horrible syndrome is called Fetal Alcohol Syndrome. Many pregnant women are not aware of the complications that are involved with pregnancy. The greater majority of young women see...
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Fetal Alcohol Syndrome Central Nervous System
2,024 wordsNow of course with the holidays coming up everyone knows to drink and behave responsibly. Everyone including the young mothers who are carrying children. They know all about the physical and cognitive effects that a drink may have on their fetus. According to health surveys 19 percent of 4 million mothers used some form of alcohol in their prenatal phase, in 1992. And this number is continually increasing, making Fetal Alcohol Syndrome one of the leading causes of birth defects in the United Sta...
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Second Trimester Pregnant Women
1,557 wordsTo an outsider a miscarriage may appear as a bit of bad luck soon to be got over, but to the couple involved the loss of the pregnancy, even at a very early stage, may be utterly devastating and the miscarriage may have profound and prolonged emotional effects on them as the following comments illustrate: In the days that followed (the miscarriage) I grew to feel such failure, having let down my husband and my family who could have enjoyed a child or grandchild if I had been able to carry him / ...
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Neural Tube Defects Central Nervous System
1,262 words... b. /March 1991). Spontaneous errors in development, whose causes are unknown, can happen in the central nervous system, face, gut, genitourinary system, and heart as shown in Table 2. The time during pregnancy which these may occur is also is also shown in Table 2 and ranges from twenty-three days to twelve weeks, all which fall into the first trimester. How these anomalies are triggered in birth defects is unknown. Neural Tube Defects, which causes are also unknown, are some of the most com...
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Neural Tube Defects Central Nervous System
2,539 wordsDevelopment of the Human Zygote November 16, 1995 Hundreds of thousands of times a year a single-celled zygote, smaller than a grain of sand, transforms into an amazingly complex network of cells, a newborn infant. Through cellular differentiation and growth, this process is completed with precision time and time again, but very rarely a mistake in the blueprint of growth and development does occur. Following is a description of how the pathways of this intricate web are followed and the mistake...
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Fetal Alcohol Syndrome Urinary Tract
1,742 wordsMany pregnant women are not aware of the complications that are involved with pregnancy. The greater majority of young women see pregnancy as a way of bringing a life into the world but do not use precaution in their dietary habits to prevent the destruction or inhibition of such a life. Most pregnant women continue on their drinking and drug abuse binge right throughout their pregnancy. They do not think ahead to the inexplicable damage that it could do to their fetus. What they do not know is ...
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Studies Have Shown Infected With Aids
1,262 wordsReview Of Literature Women/Mothers Infected with AIDS As stated by Ruth Ann Van Loon in Redefining Motherhood: Adaptation to role change for women with AIDS women represent 16 % of all adults infected with Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, more commonly referred to as AIDS. In 1998 studies revealed women were being infected with the virus at a faster rate then men. A staggering 57 % of females infected with the disease are African American and 27 % of those infected are Hispanic. 21 % of wome...
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Sickle Cell Anemia Genetic Disorders
1,287 wordsPregnancy: Risks, Complications And Contraceptive Essay, Pregnancy: Risks, Complications And Contraceptive PREGNANCY: RISKS, COMPLICATIONS AND CONTRACEPTIVES Part I. Risks and Complications to the woman and child during pregnancy a. Introduction There are many risks that a woman (and the child) undertake before, during adapter pregnancy. These are due to a varied number of effects such as exposure to temperature extremes (very hot or very cold environments), radiation (from x-rays and dental ins...
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