Fetal brain damage

If you choose to eat fish, realize that the more you eat, the more mercury your baby will ingest. And, so far, scientists haven t come up with a how-much-is-too-much figure with regard to fetal brain damage and lowered IQ. It seems like the least harmful way to eat fish, then, is to follow the FDA s suggestions avoid shark, swordfish, king mackerel, and tilefish. The EPA and some countries, including... 

Ginsberg MD, Myers RE. Fetal brain damage following maternal carbon monoxide intoxication An experimental study. Acta Obstet Gynec Scand 1974 53 309-17. 

Maternal infection. Mild infection transmitted to the fetus is another source of possible subclinical changes in brain development.24 Clinical and epidemiological studies have shown associations between maternal infection, fetal brain damage, and increased levels of proinflammatory cytokines, a class of regulatory proteins secreted especially by cells of... 

Certainly, low socioeconomic status increases the prevalence of infection, exposure to toxins, poor nutrition, and many other prenatal impacts that may be involved in fetal brain damage and in the etiology of later mental illness. 

Is neuropsychological development related to maternal hypothyroidism or to maternal hypothyroxinemia drew attention to the relationship between low maternal free-thyroxine concentrations and impaired neuropsychological development in children (Morreale de Escobar et al., 2004). This hypothesis has since been supported by further clinical and basic data, reinforcing the idea that screening programs should be implemented systematically in order to correct any maternal thyroid underfunction promptly and ultimately prevent fetal brain damage. 

Samid, D., Ram, Z., Hudgins, W.R., Shack, S, Liu, L., Walbridge, S., Oldfield, E.H. Myers, C.E. (1994). Cancer Res. 54 891-895. Selective activity of phenylacetate against malignant gliomas resemblance to fetal brain damage in phenylketonuria. 

The UCLA Medical School was under construction at that time, which meant that there were no laboratories in which to launch the work I was so eager to do. The staff was stiU being recruited and organized. Even so, as soon as I outlined my hope to study fetal brain damage resulting from the Nagasaki bomb, I was promised total support and cooperation. Members of every specialty encouraged me to undertake the work and promised their own cooperation. Today, with different financial pressures and demands on researchers, the informal and cooperative research effort that was constructed at UCLA could hardly be duplicated. 

Hetzel, B. S. Editorial Iodine and Fetal Brain Damage. New England Journal of Medicine, 311 (1994) 170-71. 

The cost of mass screening for PKU and some other related diseases makes it possible at present to do its determination in all countries where the mentally retarded citizens receive institutional and medical or social care from the State. In fact, from the economic point of view, it can be considered as good business . I have been told by pediatricians and gynecologists that it will be far more useful to avoid fetal brain damage produced by delivery trauma (hypoxia, forceps, etc.) by means of a better obstetric care than to spend money in such complicated methods for diagnosing infrequent diseases . About... 

Hetzel BS (1994) Iodine deficiency and fetal brain damage. New England Journal of Medicine 331(26) 1770-1771. 

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