Millán VMM, López GCR, Samón NM

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ABSTRACT

According to the international classification of diseases, the congenital malformations of the nervous system can be classified into: Anencephaly and similar congenital malformations, Encephalocele, Microcephalias, Hydrocephalias, Bifid Spina and other congenital malformations of the spinal cord. The Anencephalia can be defined as a defective closure of the previous neuropore during the 4th week of gestation. It is denoted at birth as a degenerate mass of tissue exposed. This condition is lethal in a few hours and in some special situations it can take days. It is presented the case of an anencephalic fetus, at the Community Integral Hospital in Caranavi, La Paz, Bolivia on May 7, 2014, with the aim of identifying the factors associated with this condition and making a literature revision, for which it was taken into account the related articles circulating on the net in English and Spanish language. It is concluded that there are several risk factors associated with this type of malformation, and they are recognized in the revised literature as: the advanced maternal age, the non- taking of folic acid and the adverse environmental factors (handling of chemical fertilizers). There is no cure for this condition yet, only the optimization of prenatal care services, including the genetic program of early detection of fetal malformations will decrease these births.

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