2018, Number 4
Genetic counseling to pregnant women with major congenital defects
Language: Spanish
References: 13
Page: 83-91
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ABSTRACT
Introduction: Major congenital defects result from any intrinsic development defect and from their beginning in an organ or in an anatomical region. Their union with others shall form the syndromes characterized by a set of multiple defects due to malformation, disruption or deformity with involvement of several development areas and with an intimate histopathological relationship.Objective: To evaluate the effectiveness of genetic counseling in pregnant women based on ultrasonographic evidence of major congenital defects.
Methods: A cross-sectional descriptive study was carried out at José Martí Pérez Polyclinic in Santiago de Cuba Municipality. The study population was made up of all pregnant women with ultrasonographic evidence of major congenital defects in the years 2016 and 2017. The information obtained was processed in a computerized way and the percentage was applied as a summary measure.
Results: The onset and detection of congenital defects in adolescent pregnant women mainly affects the cardiac system, associated to chromosomopathies, the renal system, the central nervous system, terminating the greater amount of pregnant women with major congenital defects.
Conclusions: Genetic counseling was evidenced to be a tool for the prevention of congenital defects, by which voluntary termination of pregnancy can be achieved in most cases, keeping infant mortality rate below national purposes, through early detection of congenital defects in primary health care.
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