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Fetal death

Fetal death: Introduction

Fetal death: The death of a fetus. More detailed information about the symptoms, causes, and treatments of Fetal death is available below.

Symptoms of Fetal death

• Death of a fetus
• Sudden loss of pregnancy symptoms
• Sudden cessation of fetal movement
• Miscarriage
• Unable to find fetal heartbeat upon examination
• more symptoms...»

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Home Diagnostic Testing

Home medical testing related to Fetal death:

• Pregnancy -- Related Home Testing:
  • Home Pregnancy Tests
  • Home Early Pregnancy Tests
  • Home Ovulation Tests
  • Home Fertility Tests
• more...»

Wrongly Diagnosed with Fetal death?

• Misdiagnosis of Fetal death
• Hidden causes of Fetal death (possibly wrongly diagnosed)

Fetal death: Related Patient Stories

• Fetal diagnosis

Fetal death: Complications

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Causes of Fetal death

• Fryns syndrome 3
• Gracile bone dysplasia
• Multiple pregnancy
• Rubella, congenital
• Eclampsia
• more causes...»

See full list of 37 causes of Fetal death

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More information about causes of Fetal death:

• Drug interactions causing Fetal death (145 listings)
• Fetal death as a complication caused by other conditions
• Fetal death as a symptom
• Medical news summaries relating to Causes of Fetal death

Disease Topics Related To Fetal death

Research the causes of these diseases that are similar to, or related to, Fetal death:

• Intrauterine fetal death
• Diabetes mellitus
• Pre-eclampsia
• Eclampsia
• Antepartum hemorrahge
• Abruptio placenta
• more related diseases...»

Fetal death: Undiagnosed Conditions

Commonly undiagnosed diseases in related medical categories:

• Women's Reproductive Health: diseases that are commonly undiagnosed:
  • Overactive Bladder Syndrome -- Undiagnosed
  • PCOS -- Undiagnosed
  • Chlamydia -- Undiagnosed
  • Pelvic Inflammatory Disease -- Undiagnosed
  • Cervical Cancer -- Undiagnosed
  • Breast Cancer -- Undiagnosed
  • Ovarian Cancer -- Undiagnosed
  • Von Willebrand Disease -- Undiagnosed
  • more ...»
• more undiagnosed conditions...»

Misdiagnosis and Fetal death

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Fetal death: Research Doctors & Specialists

Research related physicians and medical specialists:

• Pregnancy & Fertility Health Specialists:
  • Maternal & Fetal Medicine
  • Obstetrics & Gynecology
  • Reproductive Endocrinology & Infertility
  • Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine
• Baby & Newborn Health Specialists:
• Womens Health Specialists:
  • Gynecological Oncology
• more specialists...»

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Hospitals & Clinics: Fetal death

Research quality ratings and patient safety measures for medical facilities in specialties related to Fetal death:

• Womens Health -- Hospital Quality Ratings
• more hospital ratings...»

Hospital & Clinic quality ratings »

Choosing the Best Hospital: More general information, not necessarily in relation to Fetal death, on hospital performance and surgical care quality:

• 50 Best Hospitals Report
• Outstanding Patient Experience Award Winning Hospitals
• Women's Health Best Hospitals
• Patient Safety
• Hospital Quality and Clinical Excellence Study (2009)

Fetal death: Rare Types

Rare types of diseases and disorders in related medical categories:

• Women's Reproductive Health -- rare types of diseases:
  • Overactive Bladder Syndrome -- Rare Types
  • PCOS -- Rare Types
  • Chlamydia -- Rare Types
  • Pelvic Inflammatory Disease -- Rare Types
  • Cervical Cancer -- Rare Types
  • Breast Cancer -- Rare Types
  • Ovarian Cancer -- Rare Types
  • Von Willebrand Disease -- Rare Types
  • more ...»
• more rare diseases...»

Evidence Based Medicine Research for Fetal death

Medical research articles related to Fetal death include:

• Spousal violence and potentially preventable single and recurrent spontaneous fetal loss in an African setting: cross-sectional study.
• Maintenance therapy with oxytocin antagonists for inhibiting preterm birth after threatened preterm labour
• Risk of stillbirth and neonatal death linked with maternal mental illness: a national cohort study
• Prenatal education for congenital toxoplasmosis
• Diabetes in pregnancy: management of diabetes and its complications from pre-conception to the postnatal period
• more research...»

Click here to find more evidence-based articles on the TRIP Database

Fetal death: Animations

More Fetal death animations & videos

Research about Fetal death

Visit our research pages for current research about Fetal death treatments.

Clinical Trials for Fetal death

The US based website ClinicalTrials.gov lists information on both federally and privately supported clinical trials using human volunteers.

Some of the clinical trials listed on ClinicalTrials.gov for Fetal death include:

• A Randomized Trial of Two Regimens of Misoprostol for Second Trimester Termination for Intrauterine Fetal Death - This study is currently recruiting patients (Current: 23 Nov 2006) - misoprostol Cytotec®
• more trials...»

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Fetal death: Broader Related Topics

• Death
• Pregnancy-related conditions
• Fetal health conditions
• Death conditions
• more types...»

Types of Fetal death

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Definitions of Fetal death:

Death of the developing young in utero. BIRTH of a dead FETUS is STILLBIRTH. - (Source - Diseases Database)

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