Table of Contents
- Overview
- Symptoms
- Treatment
- Prevention
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Aprosencephaly with open cranium
Treatment
There is no current therapy. Talk to your doctor about care decisions.
Support Groups
Expectations (prognosis)
This condition usually causes death within a few days.
Complications
Calling your health care provider
A health care provider usually detects this condition during routine prenatal testing and ultrasound. Otherwise, it is recognized at birth.
If anencephaly is detected before birth, further counseling will be needed.
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Anencephaly Prevention
Review Date: 05/01/2011
Reviewed By: Neil K. Kaneshiro, MD, MHA, Clinical Assistant Professor of
Pediatrics, University of Washington School of Medicine. Also
reviewed by David Zieve, MD, MHA, Medical Director, A.D.A.M., Inc.
A.D.A.M., Inc. is accredited by URAC, also known as the American Accreditation HealthCare Commission (www.urac.org)
