At the age of three years, Rick Santorum's daughter Bella, who was hospitalized a second time during his presidential campaign, has survived, most children born with trisomy 18, with respect to common chromosomal defects that occur in the order of all newborns from 3000 to 5000 and three times more common in girls than boys.
Children with trisomy 18, also known as Edwards syndrome have three copies of chromosome 18 instead of the usual two, in their cells. Many affected pregnancies fetal miscarriage, and half of all children suffered zaversheny be stillborn, according to the Trisomy 18 Foundation. In most cases, are not inherited but occur as random errors in cell division during the formation of eggs and sperm, according to the National Library of Medicine.
About 5 percent to 10 percent of children with trisomy 18 survive the first year of life, and they often have severe disabilities, in accordance with the library of the National Institutes of Health.
"They usually die from an inability to breathe," said Dr. Larry Fenton, director of pediatric palliative care in the hospital Sanford Children in Sioux Falls, SD "mechanism of the brain tells the lungs to expand is often defective."
Nevertheless, "while mental retardation in children with trisomy 18 ... has a value, it is important to recognize that children in advance to some extent, their steps," Dr. John Carey, pediatric geneticist at the University of Utah Center for Science Health, writes on the website of the Fund trisomy 18. "They can interact with their families, to smile and to acquire certain skills, such as turning, self feeding, etc., if they survive infancy."
The reason for the hospitalization of the current Bell was not released.
"Rick and his wife took their daughter, Karen Bell at the hospital. Family requests prayers and solitude that Bella works her way to recovery," Santorum Communications Director Hogan Gidley said in a statement.
In January she was taken to a hospital in Virginia, where she developed double pneumonia.
A small number of children with trisomy 18, as a rule, women living in age from 20 to 30 years, depending on the base. Nevertheless, the organization says they have "significant delays in development, which do not allow them to live independently without the help of aid."
Those who survive the first year generally can not talk and walk, and need some kind of a feeding tube to be fed, Fenton said. While they can breathe, they can die from pneumonia or other infectious diseases, he said. Largely because they spend so much time in bed. "These are not things that help clear the lungs, so they are more vulnerable to infections."
Recently, Fenton said, he met 30-year-old woman with trisomy 18, the oldest person he ever met disorders. "I must say that she was profoundly disabled one hand, and more beautiful. She was impeccably dressed. She makeup. She knew that her mom and dad, and can go to them."
Children with trisomy 18, also known as Edwards syndrome have three copies of chromosome 18 instead of the usual two, in their cells. Many affected pregnancies fetal miscarriage, and half of all children suffered zaversheny be stillborn, according to the Trisomy 18 Foundation. In most cases, are not inherited but occur as random errors in cell division during the formation of eggs and sperm, according to the National Library of Medicine.
About 5 percent to 10 percent of children with trisomy 18 survive the first year of life, and they often have severe disabilities, in accordance with the library of the National Institutes of Health.
"They usually die from an inability to breathe," said Dr. Larry Fenton, director of pediatric palliative care in the hospital Sanford Children in Sioux Falls, SD "mechanism of the brain tells the lungs to expand is often defective."
Nevertheless, "while mental retardation in children with trisomy 18 ... has a value, it is important to recognize that children in advance to some extent, their steps," Dr. John Carey, pediatric geneticist at the University of Utah Center for Science Health, writes on the website of the Fund trisomy 18. "They can interact with their families, to smile and to acquire certain skills, such as turning, self feeding, etc., if they survive infancy."
The reason for the hospitalization of the current Bell was not released.
"Rick and his wife took their daughter, Karen Bell at the hospital. Family requests prayers and solitude that Bella works her way to recovery," Santorum Communications Director Hogan Gidley said in a statement.
In January she was taken to a hospital in Virginia, where she developed double pneumonia.
A small number of children with trisomy 18, as a rule, women living in age from 20 to 30 years, depending on the base. Nevertheless, the organization says they have "significant delays in development, which do not allow them to live independently without the help of aid."
Those who survive the first year generally can not talk and walk, and need some kind of a feeding tube to be fed, Fenton said. While they can breathe, they can die from pneumonia or other infectious diseases, he said. Largely because they spend so much time in bed. "These are not things that help clear the lungs, so they are more vulnerable to infections."
Recently, Fenton said, he met 30-year-old woman with trisomy 18, the oldest person he ever met disorders. "I must say that she was profoundly disabled one hand, and more beautiful. She was impeccably dressed. She makeup. She knew that her mom and dad, and can go to them."
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