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Prenatal treatment of congenital adrenal hyperplasia. The United States experience.
Endocrinology and metabolism clinics of North America - 1 Mar 2001
New M I
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Based on the author's experience, prenatal diagnosis and treatment of 21-hydroxylase deficiency is safe and effective in significantly reducing or eliminating virilization in the affected female, and the same outcome seems to be true in the treatment of 11 beta-hydroxylase deficiency. Prenatal treatment spares the newborn female the consequences of genital ambiguity, genital surgery, sex misassignment, and gender...
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