Bilateral middle cerebral artery thromboembolic occlusion. Could maternal hyperthermia be a detrimental factor?

Abstract:

:We describe a six-month-old girl with microcephaly, developmental delay, truncal hypotonia, left pyramidal signs, partial seizures and myoclonic spasms, born to a feverish mother. MRI showed bilateral vascular lesions in the territory of the middle cerebral arteries, prevalent in the right hemisphere, together with hypoplasia of the posterior part of the corpus callosum and Wallerian degeneration of the cerebral peduncle. There may be many reasons for these lesions. In the reported patient the presence of maternal hyperthermia could have exacerbated cerebral thromboembolic occlusion.

journal_name

Med Hypotheses

journal_title

Medical hypotheses

authors

Spalice A,Del Balzo F,Papetti L,Nicita F,Ursitti F,Salvatori G,Iannetti P

doi

10.1016/j.mehy.2011.04.023

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2011-08-01 00:00:00

pages

250-2

issue

2

eissn

0306-9877

issn

1532-2777

pii

S0306-9877(11)00186-1

journal_volume

77

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