What is Congenital malformations?
What is Congenital malformations?
- Congenital malformations: Physical body or organ malformations existing at birth.
- Congenital malformations: Used with disease headings to indicate those conditions existing at, and usually before, birth. It excludes morphologic abnormalities and birth injuries, for which "abnormalities" and "injuries" are used.
Source - Diseases Database
Congenital malformations: Introduction
Types of Congenital malformations:
Types of Congenital malformations:
Broader types of Congenital malformations:
How serious is Congenital malformations?
Deaths for Congenital malformations: 10,393 deaths reported in USA 1999 for congenital malformations, deformations and chromosomal abnormalities(NVSR Sep 2001)
What causes Congenital malformations?
Causes of Congenital malformations: see causes of Congenital malformations
What are the symptoms of Congenital malformations?
Symptoms of Congenital malformations:
see symptoms of Congenital malformations
Congenital malformations: Testing
Diagnostic testing: see tests for Congenital malformations.
Misdiagnosis: see misdiagnosis and Congenital malformations.
How is it treated?
Doctors and Medical Specialists for Congenital malformations: Neonatologist, Medical Geneticist
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see also doctors and medical specialists for Congenital malformations.
Treatments for Congenital malformations:
see treatments for Congenital malformations
Research for Congenital malformations:
see research for Congenital malformations
Society issues for Congenital malformations
Hospitalization statistics for Congenital malformations:
The following are statistics from various sources about hospitalizations and Congenital malformations:
- 23,043 admissions to public hospitals because of congenital malformations in Australia 2001-02 (AIHW National Hospital Morbidity Database, Australia’s Health 2004, AIHW)
- 26.7% of hospitalisations for congenital malformations in private hospitals are single day in Australia 2001-02 (AIHW National Hospital Morbidity Database, Australia’s Health 2004, AIHW)
- 406,415 patient days spent in private hospitals for congenital malformations in Australia 2001-02 (AIHW National Hospital Morbidity Database, Australia’s Health 2004, AIHW)
- 48.6% of hospitalisations for congenital malformations in public hospitals are single day in Australia 2001-02 (AIHW National Hospital Morbidity Database, Australia’s Health 2004, AIHW)
- 84,024 admissions to private hospitals because of congenital malformations in Australia 2001-02 (AIHW National Hospital Morbidity Database, Australia’s Health 2004, AIHW)
- 85,581 patient days spent in public hospitals for congenital malformations in Australia 2001-02 (AIHW National Hospital Morbidity Database, Australia’s Health 2004, AIHW)
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Name and Aliases of Congenital malformations
Main name of condition: Congenital malformations
Other names or spellings for Congenital malformations:
congenital abnormality
Developmental deformity, Congenital conditions, Birth defects
Source - Diseases Database
Congenital malformations: Related Conditions
Research the causes of these diseases that are similar to, or related to, Congenital malformations:
- Curvature of the 5th finger (clinodactyly)
- A third nipple
- Tiny indentations of the skin near the ears (preauricular pits)
- Shortness of the 4th metacarpal or metatarsal bones
- Dimples over the lower spine (sacral dimples)
