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Case Reports
. 1979 Apr 27;83(1):69-76.
doi: 10.1007/BF00201312.

[Effects of alcohol in the embryo, fetus, and newborn infant (author's transl)]

[Article in German]
K Püschel, H Seifert
Case Reports

[Effects of alcohol in the embryo, fetus, and newborn infant (author's transl)]

[Article in German]
K Püschel et al. Z Rechtsmed. .

Abstract

At delivery the newborn infant of a drunken mother had a bloodalcohol concentration of about 2.0%. The elimination rate was calculated to be 0.08%/h. The infant exhibited obvious features of an embryofetal alcohol syndrome. Several cases from literature are cited with ethanol given for therapeutic purpose in obstetrics and bloodalcohol concentration exceeding to 1%-2%. This means that values up to 2% in newborn infants without any other pathological findings should not solely be accepted as cause of death in forensic cases.

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