Live Birth
"Live Birth" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
The event that a FETUS is born alive with heartbeats or RESPIRATION regardless of GESTATIONAL AGE. Such liveborn is called a newborn infant (INFANT, NEWBORN).
| Descriptor ID |
D050498
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| MeSH Number(s) |
G08.686.785.760.769.530.249
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Live Birth" by people in Profiles.
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Finocchario-Kessler S, Goggin K, Staggs V, Wanyenze RK, Beyeza-Kashesya J, Mindry D, Birungi J, Wagner GJ. High report of miscarriage among women living with HIV who want to conceive in Uganda. BMC Res Notes. 2018 Oct 22; 11(1):753.
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Lantos JD. International and cross-cultural dimensions of treatment decisions for neonates. Semin Fetal Neonatal Med. 2015 Oct; 20(5):368-72.