Zoloft lawsuit
and other SSRI antidepressants have been associated with an increase in the risk of certain birth defects, including persistent pulmonary hypertension of the newborn (PPHN), congenital heart defects, cranial defects and abdominal defects.
Popular Antidepressant Zoloft (Sertraline) may cause the following birth defects:
- Persistent Pulmonary Hypertension in Newborn
- Anal atresia (complete or partial closure of the anus)
- Atrial Septal Defect (ASD) (hole in the dividing wall of top two heart chambers)
- Ventricular Septal Defect (VSD)
- Cardiac (heart) defects
- Cleft lip and cleft palate
- Spinal bifida
- Club foot (one or both feet turn downward and inward)
- Craniosynostosis (abnormally shaped skull)
- Pulmonary Stenosis
- Infant omphalocele (abdominal wall defects)
- Neural-tube defects (brain and spinal cord)
- Pulmonary (lung) defects
Zoloft also known as Sertraline, is a selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor or SSRI antidepressant that prescribed for the treatment of depression, social anxiety conditions, posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), panic disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), and premenstrual dysphoric disorder (PMDD). Babies who were exposed to Zoloft in utero may be at an increased risk of developing severe birth defects. These side effects may include heart defects, lung defects, neural tube defects, abdominal and intestinal defects and malformations.
If you or someone you love used Zoloft or Sertraline while pregnant, you and
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If you or someone you know has experienced birth defects or heart defects while taking Zoloft when pregnant, our Zoloft lawyers are waiting to hear from you. There may be a Zoloft lawsuit with possible compensation from Zoloft lawsuit.
In a new report from the Health.com website has prompted a CNN story on the increased risk of children developing autism if the mother has taken any SSRI drug such as Zoloft or other SSRI drugs while pregnant.
Children whose mothers take Zoloft, Prozac, or similar antidepressants during pregnancy are twice as likely as other children to have a diagnosis of autism or a related disorder, according to a small new study, the first to examine the relationship between antidepressants and autism risk.
FDA issued a public health advisory warning health care professionals and consumers that the popular anti-depressant drug Zoloft had been linked to serious side effects that could cause life-threatening birth defects in children born to mothers who used Zoloft during their pregnancies. The number of women and children who had been put at risk could not be accurately tabulated but considering that by the following year nearly 30 million Zoloft prescriptions had been written the scale of exposure certainly was massive. Get more information about the Zoloft Lawsuit.
