Abstract

CRUZ RIVAS, Yulenia et al. Drugs use backgrounds during pregnancy in mothers of patients presenting with lip and/or palate fissures. Rev Cubana Estomatol [online]. 2009, vol.46, n.1, pp. 0-0. ISSN 1561-297X.

Congenital defects are anomalies in structure, functioning or metabolism of organism and its causes may be of genetic or environmental causes. Lip and palate fissure is an isolated congenital defect whose etiology is of multifactorial character. Aim of present study is to identify behavior of lip and/or palate fissures in mothers took drugs during pregnancy, thus analyzing all children live birth with a diagnosis of lip and/or palate during 2000 and 2006 in Havana City, from where it was possible to obtain a study universe of 112 patients. We applied a form to obtain information related to drugs by mothers of patients during pregnancy. Results show that 58, 92 % of mother took drugs, and that trimester of higher consumption was the third one, with 50,89 % of total of study mothers. More use drugs were vitamins and antianemic.

Keywords : Congenital malformations; lip and palate fissures; pregnancy; drugs consumption.

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