Cocaine use in pregnancy in Amsterdam |
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Authors: | BJ Smit K Boer AM van Huis ISE Lie-A-Ling SC Schmidt |
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Affiliation: | Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands |
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Abstract: | To study the effects of cocaine use in pregnancy in Amsterdam, clinical data on cocaine-using pregnant women ( n = 21) and their offspring ( n = 23) were obtained retrospectively (1987–1994) at the Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam. Infants exposed to cocaine had a median gestational age of 39 weeks and a median birth weight of 3090 g. There were six preterm infants, two small-for-gestational-age infants and five infants with a small head circumference. Three infants had a congenital malformation. One infant (Potter's syndrome) died shortly before birth. One infant had congenital syphilis, four had intracerebral abnormalities on ultrasound and four had abnormal neurologic symptoms in the neonatal period. One infant died after 21 days of life. At follow-up four infants showed abnormal development. In 12 of the 23 infants (52%), one or more possible effects of cocaine were found. |
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Keywords: | Cocaine developmental outcome drug use fetal exposure growth pregnancy |
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