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B24. If a baby is born with visual problems, what stage of pregnancy was it most likely to have been infected with rubella?

Risks Associated with Rubella Infection in Pregnancy

Maternal rubella infection can result in spontaneous miscarriage, fetal infection, stillbirth, or foetal growth restriction.

Congenital infection is most likely if the maternal infection occurs in the first 16 weeks of pregnancy, with congenital rubella syndrome occurring in all foetuses infected before the 11th week and in 35% of those infected at 13–16 weeks. If infection occurs after 16 weeks of pregnancy, the risk of foetal damage is negligible. Features of congenital rubella syndrome include cardiac defects, deafness, ocular defects, thrombocytopenic purpura, haemolytic anaemia, enlarged liver and spleen, and inflammation of the meninges and brain. Pneumonitis, diabetes, thyroid dysfunction and progressive panencephalitis are other late expressions of the syndrome.

The first trimester.

The second trimester.

The third trimester.