2. Basic Information’s about her:
Name: Theresa Ann Campo Pearson.
Born: March 21,1992 at Broward General
Medical Center; Fort
Launderdale, Florida.
Born with a Disease: Anenchepalia.
Died: At the age of Nine Days.
4. She was born without complete brain or
skull.
Her parents wanted to donate her organs to
the other babies.
Her parents sought her to declare brain-
dead but on March 26, the Florida Circuit
Judge Estella Moriarty ruled that the body
had a functioning brain stem and could not
be declared as brain dead.
The two other courts also rejected the
parents appeals but the time Theresa died,
her organs had deteriorated too much to
still be viable for transplant.
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7. It is a congenital birth defect that
occurs in approximately one in one
thousand pregnancies. It is a neural
tube defect, just as is spina bifida. Life
expectancy for a baby with
anencephaly after birth is just a few
hours, sometimes a few days at most.
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10. Symptoms
Absence of bony covering over the
back bone of the head .
Missing bones around the front and
sides of the head .
Folding of the ears
Congenital heart defects
11. How is it Diagnose?
Alpha-fetoprotein
Amniocentesis
Ultrasound/Sonography
Blood test