| 1. | With omphalocele the defect is usually much larger than in gastroschisis.
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| 2. | About 30 % of infants with an omphalocele have other congenital abnormalities.
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| 3. | If this persists after birth it is called an omphalocele.
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| 4. | Approximately 15 % of live-born infants with omphalocele have chromosomal abnormalities.
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| 5. | The second hypothesis does not explain the low percentage of associated abnormality compared with omphalocele.
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| 6. | In omphalocele, there is a defect in the development of the anterior abdominal wall.
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| 7. | Abdominal wall defects, specifically the main two types, gastroschisis and omphalocele, are rare in occurrence.
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| 8. | Additional services are usually necessary for with omphalocele and the associated chromosomal abnormalities and birth defects that also arise.
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| 9. | Medical literature reports four tetra-X pregnancies, two healthy, one with trisomy 21, one stillborn with omphalocele.
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| 10. | Omphalocele occurs when some of the organs protrude through the muscles of the abdomen in the area surrounding the umbilical cord.
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