Foetal fibular hemimelia with focal femoral deficiency following prenatal misoprostol use: A case report

Abstract

Misoprostol is a well known abortifacient. It can cause teratogenicity like Mobius sequence and terminal transverse limb defects. We report a rare case of proximal focal femoral deficiency with fibular hemimelia in a woman who had attempted abortion with self-administered misoprostol and later continued the pregnancy. Though the absolute risk of congenital malformations with its use is low ∼1%, this should be clearly communicated to the women requesting abortion to help them make fully informed reproductive health decisions.

Keywords::

• Foetal
• hemimelia
• misoprostol
• abortion

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The authors declare that they do not have any conflicts of interest relevant to the contents of the article. The article was written by the authors themselves and no medical writing or editorial assistance agencies were involved therein.

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