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Fetal warfarin syndrome is a disorder of the embryo which occurs in a child whose mother took the medication warfarin (brand name: Coumadin) during pregnancy. Resulting abnormalities include low birth weight , slower growth , intellectual disability , deafness , small head size , and malformed bones , cartilage , and joints .
Warfarin should not be given to people with heparin-induced thrombocytopenia until platelet count has improved or normalised. [39] Warfarin is usually best avoided in people with protein C or protein S deficiency, as these thrombophilic conditions increase the risk of skin necrosis, which is a rare but serious side effect associated with ...
Throughout the pregnancy, all ultrasounds showed five babies. After five had been delivered the doctor reached in to retrieve the placenta and grabbed a foot instead, and said, "There's a sixth baby." Everyone initially thought she was kidding, but she wasn't. [1] The sixth was hiding behind the mother's spleen. [2]
According to Dr. Nathan Sundgren, associate medical director of the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) who treated the babies, the sisters are now all between 6.5 to 7 pounds, and "doing great."
Doctors put the odds of having identical quadruplets at about one in 15 million — which makes Mercedes and Jonathan Sandhu very special. The couple in Texas welcomed four identical girls on May 1.
The babies were Ann, weighing 3 lb 12 + 1 ⁄ 2 oz (1,720 g), Ernest 3 lb 5 oz (1,500 g), Paul 3 lb 7 oz (1,600 g), and Michael at 2 lb 13 oz (1,300 g). The babies were also unable to suckle properly at first, and were fed from a teaspoon by Mrs Miles' mother. [2] The house in Ferrars Avenue in Eynesbury where the quads were born
A 70-year-old woman who says she welcomed twins after undergoing IVF is home with her babies. Safina Namukwaya had a boy and a girl via cesarean section at Women’s Hospital International and ...
Warfarin resistance is a rare condition in which people have varying degrees of tolerance to the anticoagulant drug warfarin.In incomplete warfarin resistance, people only respond to high doses of warfarin; in complete warfarin resistance, the drug has no effect.