Doctors Discover Marker for Meconium Passage During Delivery
If newborn breathes in first bowel movement, serious complications can follow, experts note TUESDAY, May 6 (HealthDay News) -- Researchers report they have identified a marker that might predict which pregnant women will pass meconium during delivery. Meconium is essentially a baby...Amnioinfusion does not reduce risk of meconium aspiration syndrome
Meconium aspiration syndrome (also referred to as meconium aspiration) occurs when a newborn inhales a mixture of meconium and amniotic fluid during labor and delivery. Meconium is the material that fills the fetal intestinal tract during pregnancy and is formed from ingested amniotic fluid and...Phencyclidine Confirmation/Quantitation, Meconium
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... heart defect that's causing the problem. Other babies don't have heart defects but still are in deep and immediate trouble at birth. One reason is meconium aspiration, when stool in the amniotic fluid gets inside a baby's lungs before birth so lungs can't function properly afterward. Dr. Black suspects...Your baby's brain on drugs (and alcohol and tobacco)
...Center and followed there since birth. Prenatal exposures were confirmed by a combination of maternal history, urine testing of the mother or urine or meconium (stool) testing of the infants at birth. We found that reductions in cortical gray matter and total brain volumes were associated with prenatal exp...Researchers develop new model for cystic fibrosis
... that the CF piglets develop the same disease characteristics that are commonly seen in newborn humans with CF, including a bowel obstruction known as meconium ileus, which often is the first sign of CF in humans. The pigs also have an abnormal pancreas, liver, and gall bladder, similar to CF patients. "Th...