Acute onset antenatal fetal neurological injury suspected prenatally based on abnormalities in antenatal testing: a case report.
This report discusses the case of a fetus with previously normal findings of cardiotocograph that experienced an acute neurologic insult antenatally. The fetus presented with abnormalities of its heart rate tracing and its movement patterns on ultrasound. Following delivery, the infant was diagnosed with hypoxic ischemic encephalopathy by DWI in the first 24 h after birth, despite having a normal postnatal brain ultrasound.
Iwasaki
Satomi
S
Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Kyushu University, 3-1-1 Maidashi, Higashi-ku, Fukuoka 812-8582, Japan.
Morokuma
Seiichi
S
Yumoto
Yasuo
Y
Hiwatashi
Akio
A
Tsukimori
Kiyomi
K
Wake
Norio
N
D000015:Abnormalities, Multiple / Q000175:diagnosis*; D000208:Acute Disease; D000328:Adult; D001921:Brain / Q000002:abnormalities; D002545:Brain Ischemia / Q000151:congenital* / Q000175:diagnosis*; D038524:Diffusion Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D004453:Echoencephalography; D005260:Female; D006330:Heart Defects, Congenital / Q000175:diagnosis; D006339:Heart Rate; D006801:Humans; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D007232:Infant, Newborn, Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis; D011247:Pregnancy; D011296:Prenatal Diagnosis