[debc]

Hello,
I am currently 18 weeks pregnant. I have a ds who, when I was 35 weeks pregnant with him, was diagnosed with a PVC. It went away after he was born, but we have to get him checked again when he's 2 to make sure. I have searched the internet and cannot find anything on what causes fetal PVC's or how to prevent them in future pregnancies (I've heard that they're common among fetuses whose mom's are diabetic or epileptic, but I have neither). I'm going to talk to my midwives at my next appointment, but does anyone know anything between now and then?? Thanks.

 

[flyingspaghettimama]

Your local public library probably has database access to Medline, most do. If yours does not and you would like me to search mine, PM me.

This is all I found:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/q...&dopt=Abstract

If you use this PubMed portal, above, you can see abstracts but not necessarily fulltext, that's what the public library database should allow you to do. I did find more on the condition there. I searched on premature ventricular contractions baby and premature ventricular contractions fetal.

It might be one of those funky things that we don't know why show up in the kids - my own was born with two heart conditions that might have been hereditary or something else. Also, cleared up by age one. I did not see anything in the med literature search that turned up anything about prevention or causes in the PVCs.

 

[debc]

just wanted to say thanks for replying and for your support and information.