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Epilepsy & Pregnancy

   

Risks to the Infant, Precautions

Post a new topicby contentuser on Thu Dec 20, 2007 6:52 pm



Risks to the Infant

It is generally thought that women with epilepsy carry at least a 90% chance of having a normal, healthy baby.



It is estimated that women with epilepsy carry a 4 – 6% the risk for having a baby born with a malformation. A number of factors are thought to increase congenital malformations in the children of women with epilepsy which include



genetic predisposition
seizures that occur during pregnancy, and
the effects of AEDs.


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