[4] Harm and its effects are considerations and part of the ethical decision-making process in the NICU. Short-term and ... Consider the infant born with Trisomy 18, a genetic disorder considered ...

Background: Trisomy 18 is the second most common autosomal trisomy in liveborn infants, characterised by severe psychomotor and growth retardation. The median survival is 19 days, with only 5-8% ...

Johanna ended up spending two months in the neonatal unit. Milestones that are much bigger Before her, no trisomy 18 baby had ever left the ward alive. Johanna showed them that it is possible.

But CC lived. And she’s certainly not the only Trisomy 18 baby to make it home from the hospital, past toddlerhood and even into a preschool classroom. Though she is an anomaly, the oldest ...

Among 19 autopsied cases of 17–18 trisomy syndrome, 10 confirmed by cytogenetic studies, nine diagnosed on the basis of phenotypic characteristics, seven cases of neonatal hepatitis were found ...