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Congenital paraplegia following maternal hypotension
Author(s) -
Suri S,
Salfield S,
Baxter P
Publication year - 1999
Publication title -
developmental medicine and child neurology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.658
H-Index - 143
eISSN - 1469-8749
pISSN - 0012-1622
DOI - 10.1111/j.1469-8749.1999.tb00598.x
Subject(s) - paraplegia , medicine , in utero , anesthesia , gestation , encephalopathy , spinal cord , presentation (obstetrics) , pediatrics , pregnancy , surgery , fetus , psychiatry , biology , genetics
Congenital paraplegia, with partial improvement over the first months of life, occurred in a female neonate born at 35 weeks’gestation, whose mother had suffered hypotension and hypoxaemia due to anaphylaxis 12 weeks earlier. Our patient subsequently had an acute encephalopathy during a respiratory illness with later developmental delay. We speculate that the baby's paraplegia resulted from spinal‐cord ischaemia in utero. The aim of this report is to describe the spinal presentation.