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Gina comes to your office for a routine gynecological exam. She mentions wanting to try to have a child again. You suggest she have a few tests run to prevent infections of her fetus. Match the disease/sign or symptom that could be prevented in the child with the test that would guide your managment of Gina's potential pregnancy.

Disease/sign or symptom
Test

Diffuse intracranial calcifications

  
Hepatitis  
Hydrops fetalis  
Limb abnormalities and cicatricial lesions  
Hearing loss, cataracts  
Snuffles; rhinitis  
Microcephalus, periventricular calcification  

 

 

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