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Alagille syndrome: prenatal diagnosis and pregnancy outcome
1Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21287-1228, USA.
Fetal Diagnosis and Therapy
|March 27, 2002
Abstract:
The Alagille syndrome (AGS) is a multisystem autosomal dominant condition. In this case report, we describe a pregnant woman with this unusual disorder, in whom serial fetal sonography revealed severe pulmonary stenosis and progressively severe intrauterine growth retardation, suggesting that the fetus also had AGS, a diagnosis which was confirmed postnatally. In this report, the potential complications for pregnancy, labor and delivery when both mother and fetus are affected with AGS are described.