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Maternal Use of Hypophyseal or Hypothalamic Hormones and Infant Congenital Malformations

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A weak increase in malformation risk may exist after use of gonatotropin releasing hormones but this may be a result of subfertility. No teratogenic effect of drugs used at diabetes insipidus is seen but the number of exposures studied is low.

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Källén, B. (2019). Maternal Use of Hypophyseal or Hypothalamic Hormones and Infant Congenital Malformations. In: Maternal Drug Use and Infant Congenital Malformations. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-17898-7_14

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