title: [Neuromuscular diseases as a cause of neonatal respiratory insufficiency].
abstract: Neuromuscular disorder can cause neonatal respiratory insufficiency. One male term newborn with Werdnig-Hoffmann disease and two preterm infants with congenital myotonic dystrophy Curshmann-Steinert-Batten are reported. Hydramnion, few spontaneous movements, prematurity, increasing respiratory insufficiency, hypotonia and myopathic facies of the mother are typical for congenital myotonic dystrophy.
authors.affiliation: Abteilung für Neonatologie, Klinik für Kinderheilkunde, Dresden.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Dinger
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Lorenz
mesh_terms: D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D008297:Male; D009123:Muscle Hypotonia / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis; D009224:Myotonia Congenita / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis; D012131:Respiratory Insufficiency / Q000209:etiology*; D014897:Spinal Muscular Atrophies of Childhood / Q000150:complications
vernacular_title: Neuromuskuläre Erkrankungen als Ursache neonataler respiratorischer Insuffizienz.