Fetal and Neonatal Disorders

Question 1

What is the neonatal period?

Answer 1

less than 4 weeks

Question 2

what is the infancy period?

Answer 2

first year of life

Question 3

what is a malformation

Answer 3

INTRINSIC abnormal development

Question 4

what is a disruption

Answer 4

EXTRINSIC abnormal development

secondary disturbance

Question 5

what is one example of a disruption

Answer 5

amniotic bands

Question 6

what is a deformation?>

Answer 6

extrinsic disturbance of of development

Question 7

what is an example of a deforamation

Answer 7

uterine constraint

Question 8

what is potters sequence?oligohydraminos?

Answer 8

• chronic leakage of amniotic fluid because of ruptured amnion
• uteroplacental insufficiency (maternal hypertension_
• Renal agenesis (fetal unrine makes up most of amniotic fluid)

Question 9

what is -Renal agenesis

Answer 9

(fetal unrine makes up most of amniotic fluid)

Question 10

what is uteroplacental insufficiency

Answer 10

(maternal hypertension_

Question 11

what is a complication of oligohydraminos?

Answer 11

fetal compression
flattened face dislocated hips
hypoplatic lungs because growth of chest wall is restricted

Question 12

what is agenesis

Answer 12

absence of an organ

Question 13

what is aplasia

Answer 13

absence of an organ due to failure of growth of primordium

Question 14

what is atresia

Answer 14

absence of an opening

Question 15

what are the main causes of congenital abnormalities?

Answer 15

rubella
thalidomide
alcohol
smoking 
decrease in folic acid
diabetes

Question 16

describes the abnormalities associated with fetal alcohol syndrome?

Answer 16

microcephaly 
short palpebral fissures
maxillary hypoplasia (thin lips)