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 | | Accutane carries a pregnancy category X warning, meaning it is a known human teratogen. |
 | | Exposure to retinoic acid during pregnancy may result in malformations of the fetus: craniofacial alterations, cleft palate, neural tube defects, cardiovascular malformations, thymic aplasia, psychological impairments, absent or defective ears, small jaw, kidney alterations. |
 | | Below we discuss a selection of prescription drugs, used to treat maternal illness, which could possibly be avoided during pregnancy, thereby reducing the quantity of human birth defects. |
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