Hypoglycaemia and seizures in large-for-gestational-age (LGA) full-term neonates.
OBJECTIVE
To assess the risk of hypoglycaemia-associated seizures in large-for-gestational-age (LGA) full-term neonates data from the Netherlands Perinatal Registry were analysed.


RESULTS
From 1997 to 2002 hypoglycaemia was recorded in 1513 of 9318 (16.2%) admitted LGA (defined as birthweight > or = 97.7 percentile) full-term neonates without maternal diabetes, of whom 20 (1.3%) had seizures. In six of these 20, hypoglycaemia was the single cause of seizures.


CONCLUSIONS
Symptomatic hypoglycaemia occurs in healthy LGA full-term neonates.
Groenendaal
Floris
F
Department of Neonatology, Wilhelmina Children's Hospital/University Medical Centre, Utrecht, The Netherlands. f.groenendaal@umcutrecht.nl
Elferink-Stinkens
Patty M
PM
Netherlands Perinatal Registry
D001724:Birth Weight; D001786:Blood Glucose / Q000378:metabolism; D006801:Humans; D007003:Hypoglycemia / Q000453:epidemiology*; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D012640:Seizures / Q000453:epidemiology*
D001786:Blood Glucose