Fetal valproate syndrome in a 2-month-old male infant

Fetal valproate syndrome (FVS) results from prenatal exposure to valproic acid. It is characterized by a distinctive facial appearance, a cluster of minor and major anomalies and central nervous system dysfunction. We describe a 2-month-old male infant with the typical dysmorphic features characteri...

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Autores principales: Zaki, Syed A., Phulsundar, Amol, Shanbag, Preeti, Mauskar, Anupama
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications 2010
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2886875/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20427941
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0256-4947.62839
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author Zaki, Syed A.
Phulsundar, Amol
Shanbag, Preeti
Mauskar, Anupama
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Phulsundar, Amol
Shanbag, Preeti
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description Fetal valproate syndrome (FVS) results from prenatal exposure to valproic acid. It is characterized by a distinctive facial appearance, a cluster of minor and major anomalies and central nervous system dysfunction. We describe a 2-month-old male infant with the typical dysmorphic features characteristic of FVS. He had a persistent left superior vena cava draining into a dilated coronary sinus and mild pulmonary hypertension. There was a history of maternal intake of sodium valproate during pregnancy.
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spelling pubmed-28868752010-07-02 Fetal valproate syndrome in a 2-month-old male infant Zaki, Syed A. Phulsundar, Amol Shanbag, Preeti Mauskar, Anupama Ann Saudi Med Case Report Fetal valproate syndrome (FVS) results from prenatal exposure to valproic acid. It is characterized by a distinctive facial appearance, a cluster of minor and major anomalies and central nervous system dysfunction. We describe a 2-month-old male infant with the typical dysmorphic features characteristic of FVS. He had a persistent left superior vena cava draining into a dilated coronary sinus and mild pulmonary hypertension. There was a history of maternal intake of sodium valproate during pregnancy. Medknow Publications 2010 /pmc/articles/PMC2886875/ /pubmed/20427941 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0256-4947.62839 Text en © Annals of Saudi Medicine http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Zaki, Syed A.
Phulsundar, Amol
Shanbag, Preeti
Mauskar, Anupama
Fetal valproate syndrome in a 2-month-old male infant
title Fetal valproate syndrome in a 2-month-old male infant
title_full Fetal valproate syndrome in a 2-month-old male infant
title_fullStr Fetal valproate syndrome in a 2-month-old male infant
title_full_unstemmed Fetal valproate syndrome in a 2-month-old male infant
title_short Fetal valproate syndrome in a 2-month-old male infant
title_sort fetal valproate syndrome in a 2-month-old male infant
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2886875/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20427941
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0256-4947.62839
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