A Fetus with Iniencephaly Delivered at the Third Trimester

A Fetus with Iniencephaly Delivered at the Third Trimester

Iniencephaly is an uncommon neural tube defect, having retroflexion of the head without a neck and severe distortion of the spine. Iniencephaly is classified into two groups, iniencephaly apertus (with encephalocele) and iniencephaly clausus (without encephalocele). Incidence ranges from 0.1 to 10 i...

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Main Authors: Tanriverdi, Esra Cinar, Delibas, Ilhan Bahri, Kamalak, Zeynep, Kadioglu, Berrin Goktug, Bender, Rukiye Ada
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2015
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4544720/
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spelling pubmed-45447202015-09-06 A Fetus with Iniencephaly Delivered at the Third Trimester Tanriverdi, Esra Cinar Delibas, Ilhan Bahri Kamalak, Zeynep Kadioglu, Berrin Goktug Bender, Rukiye Ada Case Report Iniencephaly is an uncommon neural tube defect, having retroflexion of the head without a neck and severe distortion of the spine. Iniencephaly is classified into two groups, iniencephaly apertus (with encephalocele) and iniencephaly clausus (without encephalocele). Incidence ranges from 0.1 to 10 in 10.000 pregnancies and it is seen more frequently in girls. Most of the fetuses with this defect die before birth or soon after birth, while those with the milder forms may live through childhood. Recurrence risk is around 1–5%. Family should be offered termination to reduce maternal risks and counseled for folic acid supplementation before the next planned pregnancy. Here we present a rare case of iniencephaly clausus which was diagnosed at 18th week of gestation by ultrasonography and delivered in the third trimester of pregnancy due to rejection of termination. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2015 2015-08-06 /pmc/articles/PMC4544720/ /pubmed/26345271 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2015/520715 Text en Copyright © 2015 Esra Cinar Tanriverdi et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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author Tanriverdi, Esra Cinar
Delibas, Ilhan Bahri
Kamalak, Zeynep
Kadioglu, Berrin Goktug
Bender, Rukiye Ada
spellingShingle Tanriverdi, Esra Cinar
Delibas, Ilhan Bahri
Kamalak, Zeynep
Kadioglu, Berrin Goktug
Bender, Rukiye Ada
A Fetus with Iniencephaly Delivered at the Third Trimester
author_facet Tanriverdi, Esra Cinar
Delibas, Ilhan Bahri
Kamalak, Zeynep
Kadioglu, Berrin Goktug
Bender, Rukiye Ada
author_sort Tanriverdi, Esra Cinar
title A Fetus with Iniencephaly Delivered at the Third Trimester
title_short A Fetus with Iniencephaly Delivered at the Third Trimester
title_full A Fetus with Iniencephaly Delivered at the Third Trimester
title_fullStr A Fetus with Iniencephaly Delivered at the Third Trimester
title_full_unstemmed A Fetus with Iniencephaly Delivered at the Third Trimester
title_sort fetus with iniencephaly delivered at the third trimester
description Iniencephaly is an uncommon neural tube defect, having retroflexion of the head without a neck and severe distortion of the spine. Iniencephaly is classified into two groups, iniencephaly apertus (with encephalocele) and iniencephaly clausus (without encephalocele). Incidence ranges from 0.1 to 10 in 10.000 pregnancies and it is seen more frequently in girls. Most of the fetuses with this defect die before birth or soon after birth, while those with the milder forms may live through childhood. Recurrence risk is around 1–5%. Family should be offered termination to reduce maternal risks and counseled for folic acid supplementation before the next planned pregnancy. Here we present a rare case of iniencephaly clausus which was diagnosed at 18th week of gestation by ultrasonography and delivered in the third trimester of pregnancy due to rejection of termination.
publisher Hindawi Publishing Corporation
publishDate 2015
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4544720/
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