antenatally

The diagnosis can be made antenatally with ultrasound.

Remember that teaching deaf mothers, both antenatally and postnatally, will take more time than normal.

Lorazepam given to pregnant women antenatally may cause floppy infant syndrome in the neonate, or respiratory depression necessitating ventilation.

Eugenic termination of pregnancy is often recommended if exposure occurs or CRS is suspected antenatally.

The UK has a midwifery lead care both antenatally and post-natally, and women are only referred to joint midwife/obstetric care if indicated.

Although VUR is more common in males antenatally, in later life there is a definite female preponderance with 85% of cases being female.

Betamethasone and dexamethasone are corticosteroids, also called glucocorticoids, that are given before birth (antenatally) to speed up a preterm fetus's lung development.

Holgersen LO, Subramanian S, Kirpekar M, et al.: Spontaneous resolution of antenatally diagnosed adrenal masses.

Suppression of labour was attempted with ritodrine in four cases in the regulated group and two cases in the random group; only one mother in each group received steroids antenatally.

Given that the vast majority of expectant mothers do not receive the kind of advanced ultrasound scanning required to confirm SUA in utero, most cases may never be detected antenatally even today.

Symptomatic CMV disease in the infant is much less common when CMV is acquired intrapartum or through breast-feeding than when acquired antenatally and occurs primarily in premature neonates.

As a full-time partner in a four-woman OB/GYN group practicing out of Northern Westchester Hospital Center, I take great pride in our obstetrical management of patients both antenatally and intrapartum.

The Centre for Maternal and Child Enquiries (CMACE) - found that in a review of 122 cases of stillbirth in 1996-97, 45 per cent had 'sub-optimal care' antenatally or during labour.

Moreover, the low attendance by female patients at existing STD clinics raises several questions - eg, what proportion of STDs detected antenatally represent pre-existing symptomless infection (as a consequence of lack of partner notification) and what proportion are acquired during pregnancy?

In a government document on maternity care, the Maternity Services Advisory Committee rounded up advice on good practice in postnatal care: 'The care a mother and baby receive in the first weeks after the birth is as important as the care given antenatally and during childbirth,' it says.