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Rubella in pregnancy and fetal syndrome
Last reviewed: 23.04.2024
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Rubella during pregnancy can be the cause of spontaneous abortion, inbirth, the birth of a child with multiple developmental defects, manifestations of an active infectious process. Congenital rubella is caused by the rubella virus and has the following symptoms:
- heart defects:
- ezaratschenie arterial duct;
- stenosis of the pulmonary trunk;
- defects of interventricular and interatrial septum;
- lesions of the eyes;
- pearl nuclear cataract;
- microphthalmia;
- congenital glaucoma;
- retinopathy;
- lesions of the central nervous system:
- microcephaly;
- mental retardation;
- mental retardation;
- paraplegia;
- autism;
- deafness.
Children are often born with low body weight, hemorrhagic blue, hepato-splenomegaly, hemolytic anemia, meningitis, bone damage, but all these lesions are reversible. In the second decade of life, it is possible to develop a slow infection of the central nervous system - progressive rubella panencephalitis, manifested by a decrease in intelligence, myoclonia, ataxia, epileptic syndrome and death. Congenital rubella increases the risk of developing type 1 diabetes. With fetal rubella syndrome, the lethality is about 10%.
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