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Litigation is rising in maternity care and there is no evidence that it will slow down. Advertisements with a 'no win no fee' message encourage people to seek out lawyers. It is true that we are becoming an increasingly litigious society and claims in maternity care often lead to very high pay-outs.
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July 2014
Tayside Children's Hospital, NHS Tayside, Ninewells Hospital & Medical School, Dundee DD1 9SY, UK.
Background: Aicardi syndrome (AS) is a rare neurodevelopmental disorder characterized by the triad of corpus callosum agenesis, chorioretinal lacunae, and infantile spasms. Most patients with AS also have intractable epilepsy, moderate to severe learning disability, and a reduced life expectancy. An X-linked dominant inheritance caused by de novo mutations pattern, lethal in males, is postulated, but the gene has not yet been isolated.
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