Congenital malformations prevalent among Egyptian children and associated risk factors

Egyptian Journal of Medical Human Genetics

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 69-78

  Shawky, Rabah M ^a   Sadik, Doaa I ^b  

^a AIN SHAMS UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

^b AIN SHAMS UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

Author keywords

Antenatal care; Birth weight; Congenital malformations; Consanguinity; Egyptian children; Risk factors

Indexed keywords

FOLIC ACID; MULTIVITAMIN;

ABORTION; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANOPHTHALMIA; ANUS ATRESIA; AORTA COARCTATION; ARTHROGRYPOSIS; ARTICLE; AUTOSOMAL DISORDER; BILE DUCT ATRESIA; BIRTH WEIGHT; BLADDER MALFORMATION; BREECH PRESENTATION; CARDIOMYOPATHY; CEREBROVASCULAR MALFORMATION; CESAREAN SECTION; CHILD; CHONDROPATHY; CHROMOSOME DELETION; CLEFT LIP; CLEFT PALATE; COMMON COLD; CONGENITAL BLOOD VESSEL MALFORMATION; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; CONGENITAL PELVIFEMORAL ANOMALY; CONSANGUINEOUS MARRIAGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORNEA DISEASE; DEXTROCARDIA; DOWN SYNDROME; DRUG USE; EAR MALFORMATION; ECTOPIC KIDNEY; EGYPT; ENDOCARDIAL FIBROELASTOSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; EPISPADIAS; FACE MALFORMATION; FALLOT TETRALOGY; FEMALE; FEVER; FRAGILE X SYNDROME; GONADAL DYSGENESIS; GREAT VESSELS TRANSPOSITION; HEART ATRIUM SEPTUM DEFECT; HEART VENTRICLE SEPTUM DEFECT; HIRSCHSPRUNG DISEASE; HUMAN; HYDRAMNIOS; HYDROCEPHALUS; HYPOSPADIAS; INFANT; IRIS DISEASE; KIDNEY AGENESIS; KIDNEY DYSPLASIA; KIDNEY POLYCYSTIC DISEASE; KLINEFELTER SYNDROME; LENS DISEASE; LIMB MALFORMATION; LUNG AGENESIS; LUNG POLYCYSTIC DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MATERNAL AGE; MATERNAL DIABETES MELLITUS; MATERNAL SMOKING; MICROCEPHALY; MICROPHTHALMIA; MOUTH MALFORMATION; MULTIPARA; MUSCULOSKELETAL SYSTEM MALFORMATION; NECK MALFORMATION; NEURAL TUBE DEFECT; NEWBORN; OLIGOHYDRAMNIOS; OPTIC NERVE ATROPHY; OSTEOGENESIS IMPERFECTA; OVARY DISEASE; PATENT DUCTUS ARTERIOSUS; PATERNAL AGE; PREECLAMPSIA; PREMATURITY; PRENATAL CARE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PYLORUS STENOSIS; RESPIRATORY TRACT MALFORMATION; RETINA MALFORMATION; RISK FACTOR; SCHOOL CHILD; SEX CHROMOSOME ABERRATION; SEX DIFFERENTIATION DISORDER; SITUS INVERSUS; STILLBIRTH; TRISOMY; TURNER SYNDROME; TWIN PREGNANCY; UMBILICAL HERNIA; URETHRA MALFORMATION; VAGINA BLEEDING; VALVULAR HEART DISEASE;

EID: 84877952881     PISSN: 11108630     EISSN: 20902441     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejmhg.2011.02.016     Document Type: Article

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