Cerebral palsy due to nonlethal maternal carbon monoxide intoxication

✍ Scribed by Füsun Alehan; Ilknur Erol; Özge Sürmeli Onay

• Book ID: 101706570
• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 2007
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 71 KB
• Volume: 79
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1542-0752
• DOI: 10.1002/bdra.20379

✦ Synopsis

Abstract

BACKGROUND: Carbon monoxide (CO) poisoning in pregnancy is a relatively rare occurrence, but it can result in fetal mortality and neurologic complications in fetuses who survive to term. CASE: We describe the course of an infant who was acutely exposed to CO at 20 weeks of gestation. CONCLUSIONS: We conclude that despite maternal well‐being, CO intoxication at critical periods of human brain development can lead to hypoxic‐ischemic lesions in the globus pallidus and that dystonic cerebral palsy may develop in the infant during long‐term follow‐up. Birth Defects Research (Part A), 2007. © 2007 Wiley‐Liss, Inc.