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Though specialized techniques in neonatal intensive care have helped reduce deaths and disability among such infants, their problems remain acute. Besides respiratory distress syndrome, "preemies" are susceptible to heart problems, damage to the gastrointestinal tract, cerebral palsy and mental retardation. Says Rosanne's physician, Dr. Irwin Merkatz, an obstetrical perinatologist at MacDonald House-University Hospitals of Cleveland: "Preterm delivery is the single biggest problem in obstetrics today...
...drug is not for all women experiencing early labor. Explains Merkatz: "Its use is appropriate in uncomplicated, premature labor where there do not seem to be additional medical complications affecting either the mother or baby." That would rule out women with hypertension or heart conditions, and pregnancies in which the placenta has separated from the uterus or in which the amniotic sac has ruptured and become infected. Nonetheless, ritodrine should be useful to about a quarter of women in preterm labor. Says Merkatz: "It's not a panacea for the whole problem of premature delivery. But it will certainly...
...thousands of dollars. Balanced against this is the nearly $1 million it can cost over a lifetime to support a child handicapped in birth, or the in calculable emotional toll on the family with a dead baby. Declares the director of the Ohio network, Cleveland's Dr. Irwin Merkatz: "Regionalization is the cheapest new advance in medicine that we've ever...
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