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Home > West Medicine > Pediatrics > Pediatric Internal Med

Classroom classification

百科

Small-for-gestational-age infant

儿科综合

Common symptoms

脱皮、骨软化、肝脾肿大、“老练”外貌

The pathology of disease

Small-for-gestational-age (SGA) infant is birth weight below 10th percentile for gestational age; constitutionally small vs intrauterine growth restriction (IUGR).

Symptoms

Low birth weight; thin; dry skin; hypoglycemia; perinatal asphyxia; symmetric vs asymmetric

Causes

Constitutional; placental insufficiency; maternal hypertension/smoking; fetal; genetic.

Treatment

Glucose monitoring; temperature; feeding; monitor; long-term growth/development follow-up

Dept

Neonatology / pediatrics.

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