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Original Source: Women's experience of termination of pregnancy for fetal anomaly: effects of socio-political evolutions in France.
OBJECTIVE: To analyse the experiences of women facing a termination of pregnancy for fetal anomaly (TOPFA) in relation to decisional aspects, attitudes towards the fetus' body and the effects of postpartum depression. The method is based on a two-stage questionnaire given to 120 women who underwent a TOPFA between 2005 and 2006 in a Parisian Prenatal Diagnosis Department and compared to a similar study carried out in 1999 in the same department. RESULTS: In 2005, 68/120 women (57%) compared to 32/103 (32%)...
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Maternal factors are associated with fetal growth restriction
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Attitudes of pregnant women regarding termination of pregnancy for fetal abnormality.
OBJECTIVE: To study the attitudes of pregnant women towards termination of pregnancy for fetal abnormality. MATERIALS AND METHODS: A questionnaire was completed by all pregnant women attending routine...
OBJECTIVE: To analyse the experiences of women facing a termination of pregnancy for fetal anomaly (TOPFA) in relation to decisional aspects, attitudes towards the fetus' body and the effects of postp...
AIMS: The aim of this study was to quantify the risk of major congenital anomaly, and to assess the influence of peri-conception HbA(1c) and other clinical and socio-demographic...
Early second-trimester diagnosis of body stalk anomaly by fetal magnetic resonance imaging.
We report a case of body stalk anomaly detected prenatally by fetal magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) at 14 weeks' gestation. A 29-year-old woman was followed during her first pregnancy. At 11-12 wee...
OBJECTIVE: To assess the public health consequences of the rise in multiple births with respect to congenital anomalies. DESIGN: Descriptive epidemiological analysis of data from population-based cong...
