TY - JOUR
T1 - Varicella infection in pregnancy
AU - Bassett, D. C.J.
AU - Pastuszak, Anne L.
AU - Koren, Gideon
PY - 1994/8/18
Y1 - 1994/8/18
N2 - To the Editor: Pastuszak and her colleagues (March 31 issue)1 report embryopathy in 1 of 49 infants born alive after first-trimester maternal varicella. In the meta-analysis of their own results and those of four comparable published studies, they calculate a 2.2 percent aggregate mean rate of congenital varicella embryopathy among such live-born infants. Their Table 4 shows the fetal risk for the congenital varicella syndrome in each study. However, according to the references cited, only 1 of 145 cases in the table involved defects typical of the syndrome. The authors' case may be added, but it is not clear whether.
AB - To the Editor: Pastuszak and her colleagues (March 31 issue)1 report embryopathy in 1 of 49 infants born alive after first-trimester maternal varicella. In the meta-analysis of their own results and those of four comparable published studies, they calculate a 2.2 percent aggregate mean rate of congenital varicella embryopathy among such live-born infants. Their Table 4 shows the fetal risk for the congenital varicella syndrome in each study. However, according to the references cited, only 1 of 145 cases in the table involved defects typical of the syndrome. The authors' case may be added, but it is not clear whether.
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U2 - 10.1056/NEJM199408183310718
DO - 10.1056/NEJM199408183310718
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C2 - 8035858
AN - SCOPUS:0028074911
SN - 0028-4793
VL - 331
SP - 482
JO - New England Journal of Medicine
JF - New England Journal of Medicine
IS - 7
ER -