Sentence examples for multiple congenital defects from inspiring English sources

Microduplications 22q11.2 have been recently characterized as a new genomic duplication syndrome showing an extremely variable phenotype ranging from normal or mild learning disability to multiple congenital defects and sharing some overlapping features with DiGeorge/velocardiofacial syndrome (DGS/VCFS), including heart defects, urogenital abnormalities and velopharyngeal insufficiency.

The children were born at term with average birth weight and multiple congenital defects.

For male infants, pneumonia (12.3%), prematurity (11.8%), acute viral syndrome/influenza (10.5%), congenital heart defects (10.2%), asphyxia (5.9%), cardiopulmonary insufficiency (5.2%) and multiple congenital defects (5.2%) represented leading causes of death.

Among female infants, the leading causes of death were acute viral syndrome (12.4%), congenital heart defects (11.0%), pneumonia (10.4%), prematurity (9.7%), asphyxia (5.8), multiple congenital defects (5.2%) and cardiopulmonary insufficiency (5.0%).

aIncluded only live births with isolated and multiple congenital defects (including a limb defect) because of 1) lack of information on stillbirths and abortions, and 2) genetic abnormalities or syndromes have characteristic patterns [ 31]. bNumber of sites exceeds the number of children due to multiple CLD in some cases.

Multiple congenital heart defects have also been reported in association with unroofed CS, including atrioventricular valve atresia, ASD, VSD, anomalous pulmonary venous connection, cor triatriatum (Fig. 7) and tetralogy of Fallot [18, 19].

Human mandibular anomaly appears to be a common malformation and appears in multiple congenital birth defect syndromes, ranging from agnathia (agenesis of the jaw) to micrognathia to patterning malformations.

These agents have antifolate effects and other antifolate agents can induce multiple congenital abnormalities, neural-tube defects, cardiovascular, and other malformations in animal experiments and in humans.

Congenital defects in multiple organ systems were reported for both trisomies, however the percentage of fetuses affected was lower than that reported in other studies [ 11, 23].

We recently studied a group of 289 BA infants enrolled in the Childhood Research and Education Network; 10% had multiple congenital anomalies consistent with laterality defects and 6% had multiple congenital anomalies not of the laterality type [ 1].

aOnly cases with multiple congenital anomalies (including a limb defect) were included because genetic abnormalities or syndromes have particular associations [ 17].