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Distribution of major and cardiac malformations and fetal death according to type of diabetes

Distribution of major and cardiac malformations and fetal death according to type of diabetes

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Objectives: To analyze diabetic pregnant women who underwent fetalechocardiography , from April 1993 to December 2003, and to identify the fetal echocardiographic abnormalities and postnatal outcome. Methods: A retrospective cross-sectional study of 178 diabetic pregnant women who underwent fetal echocardiography. Clinical and laboratory maternal,...

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... to diabetes control in these patients, seven of them were controlled with diet alone and the remaining, with insulin. Figure 2 summarizes the distribution of the major malformations and fetal deaths in the studied population. ...

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