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Infant, Newborn, Diseases

Medical Definition: Diseases of newborn infants present at birth (congenital) or developing within the first month of birth. It does not include hereditary diseases not manifesting at birth or within the first 30 days of life nor does it include inborn errors of metabolism. Both HEREDITARY DISEASES and METABOLISM, INBORN ERRORS are available as general concepts.
Guide Notes: IM GEN only; for specific dis in newborn inf use specific dis (IM) + check tag INFANT, NEWBORN; do not use /compl /congen; check the tag INFANT, NEWBORN: Manual 18.5.10; relation to /congen: Manual 19.8.18, 23.21+; TN 109: relation to other Cat C16 terms
Infant, Newborn, Diseases Categories.
Canadian Medical Guide Definition Amniotic Band Syndrome - A disorder present in the newborn infant in which constriction rings or bands, causing soft tissue depressions, encircle digits, extremities, or limbs and sometimes the neck, thorax, or abdomen. They may be associated with intrauterine amputations.
Canadian Medical Guide Definition Asphyxia Neonatorum - Respiratory failure in the newborn. (Dorland, 27th ed)
Canadian Medical Guide Definition Birth Injuries - Mechanical or anoxic trauma incurred by the infant during labor or delivery.
Canadian Medical Guide Definition Infant, Premature, Diseases
Canadian Medical Guide Definition Jaundice, Neonatal - A transient unconjugated hyperbilirubinemia that occurs between the second and fifth days of life because the hepatic enzyme GLUCURONOSYLTRANSFERASE required for BILIRUBIN detoxification is inadquedate.
Canadian Medical Guide Definition Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome - Fetal and neonatal addiction and withdrawal as a result of the mother's dependence on drugs during pregnancy. Withdrawal or abstinence symptoms develop shortly after birth. Symptoms exhibited are loud, high-pitched crying, sweating, yawning and gastrointestinal disturbances.
Canadian Medical Guide Definition Severe Combined Immunodeficiency - Group of rare congenital disorders characterized by impairment of both humoral and cell-mediated immunity, leukopenia, and low or absent antibody levels. It is inherited as an X-linked or autosomal recessive defect. About half of the patients with autosomal recessive SCID are deficient in the enzyme adenosine deaminase.

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