Key result
Maternal vitamin K deficiency secondary to malabsorption during early pregnancy was associated with chondrodysplasia punctata and other abnormalities in three infants.
Why the study?
Does maternal vitamin K deficiency secondary to malabsorption cause embryopathy similar to warfarin embryopathy?
Population
3 unrelated infants with radiographic punctate calcifications, nasal hypoplasia, and abnormalities of the…
Design
Case_series
Authors
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May phenocopy warfarin embryopathy via maternal vitamin K deficiency; case report leaves open causality and generalizability.
Case Report (n=3)
Does maternal vitamin K deficiency secondary to malabsorption cause embryopathy similar to warfarin embryopathy?
Maternal vitamin K deficiency secondary to malabsorption may lead to an embryopathy that phenocopies warfarin embryopathy.
Menger et al. (1997) conducted a case report in Vitamin K deficiency embryopathy (n=3). Maternal vitamin K deficiency secondary to malabsorption was evaluated on Chondrodysplasia punctata and other abnormalities. Maternal vitamin K deficiency secondary to malabsorption during early pregnancy was associated with chondrodysplasia punctata and other abnormalities in three infants.
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