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Infant Born with Abdominal Wall Defect

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An infant at 39 weeks gestation is born to a thin 19-year-old Caucasian G1P0 woman with no prior medical history. She quit smoking when she discovered she was pregnant. The pregnancy was planned, and it has been uncomplicated. Prenatal maternal laboratory studies were significant for an elevated serum alpha-fetoprotein level. Prenatal ultrasound examinations showed a fetus with free loops of intestine present in the amniotic cavity extruding through a small abdominal defect lateral to the base of the umbilical cord. The infant’s APGAR scores are 8 and 9 at birth and minutes later, respectively. Vital signs are within normal limits. The abdomen is scaphoid with loops of matted and inflamed small bowel protruding from a defect to the right of the umbilicus.

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  1. Department of Surgery, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, 757 Westwood Plz, Rm B711, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, USA

    Justin P. Wagner MD

  2. Department of Surgery, Division of Pediatric Surgery, Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, 1000 W. Carson Street, Box 25, Torrance, CA, 90509, USA

    Steven L. Lee MD

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  1. Department of Surgery, Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, California, USA

    Christian de Virgilio

  2. General Surgery, Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, California, USA

    Paul N. Frank

  3. Department of Surgery, University of California, Irvine, Orange, California, USA

    Areg Grigorian

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Wagner, J.P., Lee, S.L. (2015). Infant Born with Abdominal Wall Defect. In: de Virgilio, C., Frank, P., Grigorian, A. (eds) Surgery. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-1726-6_34

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