Fetal Alcohol Syndrome
Magnetic Resonance Imaging of Brain Anomalies in Fetal Alcohol Syndrome
... Conclusion. Patients with classic FAS have a high incidence of midline brain anomalies. This finding is consistent with the concept that the midline CNS is a developmental field that is particularly susceptible to the ...
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Fetal alcohol syndrome prevention in Washington State: evidence of success
... Fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS) is a permanent birth defect syndrome caused by mater- nal consumption of alcohol during ...of fetal alcohol syndrome prevention ...
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Fetal Alcohol Syndrome: A Preventable Disorder. Laura McConahey. A Capstone Project submitted in partial fulfillment of the
... People with FAS/FASD, like everyone else, have a variety of talents and capabilities. They exhibit a wide range of intellectual levels and functional disabilities that probably reflect differing degrees of prenatal brain ...
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Hearing Disorders in Children With Fetal Alcohol Syndrome: Findings From Case Reports
... That sensori- neural hearing loss may be associated with fetal alcohol syndrome and that children with this syn- drome apparently do not outgrow their otitis prone- ness are perhaps the [r] ...
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Issues in Estimating the Prevalence of Fetal Alcohol Syndrome: Examination of 2 Counties in New York State
... METHODS. Erie County and Monroe County were the 2 most populous counties included in the New York Fetal Alcohol Syndrome Surveillance Network. Erie County includes Buffalo, the second largest city in ...
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Dose-dependent alcohol-induced alterations in chromatin structure persist beyond the window of exposure and correlate with fetal alcohol syndrome birth defects
... to alcohol on gestational Day-7 exhibit signifi- cant alterations in chromatin structure (histone 3 lysine 9 dimethylation, lysine 9 acetylation, and lysine 27 trimethyla- tion) at Day-17, and that these changes ...
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Rust & Bowden. Key Words: Fetal Alcohol Syndrome, Fetal Alcohol Affects, Alcohol, Prevention, Resources, and Education
... “possible fetal alcohol ...patients. Fetal Alcohol Syndrome patients have IQ scores in the mildly retarded range during adolescence and adulthood while the patients with FAE had ...
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Accuracy of the Diagnosis of Physical Features of Fetal Alcohol Syndrome by Pediatricians After Specialized Training
... of fetal alcohol syndrome for 4 pediatricians in ...with fetal alcohol syndrome or deferred (possible fetal alcohol syndrome) by the pediatricians were then ...
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Simpering Outrage During an "Epidemic" on Fetal Alcohol Syndrome
... Even though I had only been away a week it felt much longer and I looked forward to seeing my son, Skender. I also hoped that returning home would lessen the unease that I felt as a result of the meeting I had just ...
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Renal Anomalies in Fetal Alcohol Syndrome
... Moreover, patients with congenital renal abnormalities such as hypoplasia should be inves- tigated for signs of fetal alcohol syndrome and maternal history of alcoholism. REFERENCES[r] ...
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Fetal Alcohol Syndrome and Alcohol-Related Neurodevelopmental Disorders
... to alcohol is one of the leading preventable causes of birth defects, mental retar- dation, and neurodevelopmental ...prenatal alcohol exposure was recognized as a clinical entity called fetal ...
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Dental and Facial Characteristics of a Patient with Fetal Alcohol Syndrome – Case Report
... Fetal alcohol syndrome is caused by mater- nal alcohol use during pregnancy and is one of the leading causes of preventable birth defects and developmental disabilities in both devel- oped and ...
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Quantification of Neurocognitive Changes Before, During, and After Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy in a Case of Fetal Alcohol Syndrome
... ABSTRACT. Fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS) is the most common nonhereditary cause of mental retardation, with deficits in general intellectual functioning, learning, memory, attention, and ...therapy, ...
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Pediatricians' Knowledge, Training, and Experience in the Care of Children With Fetal Alcohol Syndrome
... Controversy exists about who should make the de- finitive diagnosis. Pairing early detection and ongoing management by the primary care physician with spe- cialty consultation is a model that holds promise. Al- though ...
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Preliminary study of the prevalence of hypotrophy and fetal alcohol syndrome in Antananarivo, Madagascar
... factors. Fetal Alcohol Syndrome (FAS) is not yet mentioned in Madagascar although more than 9% of Tananarivian women drink ...maternal alcohol intake and ...
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Toluene Embryopathy: Delineation of the Phenotype and Comparison With Fetal Alcohol Syndrome
... In 1979, Toutant and Lippman described an infant with phe- notypic features suggestive of fetal alcohol syndrome who was born to a woman who was a chronic solvent abuser.7 Approximately [r] ...
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Psychosocial Outcomes of Fetal Alcohol Syndrome in Adulthood
... impact on their daily life. It is suggested that these issues persist into adulthood, but few studies have addressed the outcome in adults with prenatal exposure, especially those with fetal alcohol ...
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Prevention of fetal alcohol syndrome
... by alcohol consumption of its mother during ...the alcohol intake of its ...with alcohol abuse or alcohol dependency before their pregnancy and women, who were substantially drinking during ...
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Digital assessment of the fetal alcohol syndrome facial phenotype: reliability and agreement study
... prenatal alcohol expo- sure (PAE), diagnosis, including FAS/PFAS diagnosis, and clinician-rated ‘Severity’ of the FAS facial pheno- type (based on the Canadian 2005 guidelines 10 : Absent: ...
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Two case reports of fetal alcohol syndrome: broadening into the spectrum of cardiac disease to personalize and to improve clinical assessment
... Significant associations with alcohol exposure were re- ported with ventricular septal defects and atrial septal defects. Furthermore, mothers who drink alcohol during pregnancy have 1.64 fold times ...
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