[2 successful pregnancies in a woman with type I osteogenesis imperfecta]
P Babel1, V Jaspers, L Spätling
1Universitäts-Frauenklinik, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Marienhospital Herne.
Geburtshilfe Und Frauenheilkunde
|April 1, 1994
Abstract:
The chance of a woman with osteogenesis imperfecta to succeed in a pregnancy with a healthy baby and without any harm to herself, is poor. A case of a 37-year old patient is presented, who consciously became pregnant twice, despite her severe illness. Both pregnancies finally resulted in Caesarean section, but without any complications to the patient. While the first child, a boy, is healthy, the second, a girl, is expected to suffer from phosphate diabetes since the father suffered from this illness.
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