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  2. Microcephaly - Wikipedia

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    Microcephaly generally is due to the diminished size of the largest part of the human brain, the cerebral cortex, and the condition can arise during embryonic and fetal development due to insufficient neural stem cell proliferation, impaired or premature neurogenesis, the death of neural stem cells or neurons, or a combination of these factors ...

  3. Achalasia microcephaly - Wikipedia

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    The main signs of achalasia microcephaly syndrome involve the manifestation of each individual disease associated with the condition. Microcephaly can be primary, where the brain fails to develop properly during pregnancy, or secondary, where the brain is normal sized at birth but fails to grow as the child ages. [2]

  4. Neonatal infection - Wikipedia

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    During pregnancy, hepatitis A can cause placental abruption, premature rupture of membranes, and increased rates of preterm labor. [ 20 ] Hepatitis B is an enveloped, double stranded DNA virus that is spread by exposure to blood, with the main modes of transmission are blood, sexual transmission, or perinatal.

  5. Zika fever - Wikipedia

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    [1] [4] Symptoms may include fever, red eyes, joint pain, headache, and a maculopapular rash. [1] [2] [3] Symptoms generally last less than seven days. [2] It has not caused any reported deaths during the initial infection. [4] Mother-to-child transmission during pregnancy can cause microcephaly and other brain malformations in some babies.

  6. Dubowitz syndrome - Wikipedia

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    Microcephaly is a characteristic in which the circumference of the head is smaller than normal due to improper development of the brain. It is caused by genetic disorders, infections, radiation, medications or alcohol use during pregnancy. Defects in the growth of the cerebral cortex lead to many of the features associated with microcephaly. [4]

  7. Trisomy X - Wikipedia

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    Symptoms associated with trisomy X ... 46,XX/47,XXX karyotypes undergo screening for chromosomal disorders during pregnancy. [3] ... defects, microcephaly, ...

  8. Fetal hydantoin syndrome - Wikipedia

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    Signs and symptoms [ edit ] About one third of children whose mothers are taking this drug during pregnancy typically have intrauterine growth restriction with a small head and develop minor dysmorphic craniofacial features (microcephaly and intellectual disability) and limb defects including hypoplastic nails and distal phalanges ( birth ...

  9. Congenital cytomegalovirus infection - Wikipedia

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    For infants who are infected by their mothers before birth, two potential adverse scenarios exist: Generalized infection may occur in the infant, and can cause complications such as low birth weight, microcephaly, seizures, petechial rash similar to the "blueberry muffin" rash of congenital rubella syndrome, and moderate hepatosplenomegaly (with jaundice).