Congenital paraplegia following maternal hypotension.
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.
Suri
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Department of Paediatrics, Harrogate District Hospital, UK.
Salfield
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Baxter
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D000328:Adult; D000707:Anaphylaxis / Q000150:complications; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007022:Hypotension / Q000150:complications* / Q000209:etiology; D000860:Hypoxia / Q000150:complications* / Q000209:etiology; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D010264:Paraplegia / Q000151:congenital* / Q000503:physiopathology; D011247:Pregnancy; D011249:Pregnancy Complications, Cardiovascular / Q000503:physiopathology*