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Document 0360
DOCN M9630360
TI [Fetal cerebral accident due to massive fetomaternal hemorrhage. A case
report]
DT 9603
AU Lionnet C; Body G; Gold F; Paillet C; Vaillant MC; Alle C; Berger C;
Centre de Diagnostic Antenatal et de Medecine Foetale, CHU; Bretonneau,
Tours.
SO J Gynecol Obstet Biol Reprod (Paris). 1995;24(5):553-6. Unique
Identifier : AIDSLINE MED/96051659
AB Massive fetomaternal haemorrhage (FMH) occurs in 0.12 to 0.5% of
pregnancies. It is most often spontaneous and involves uncomplicated
near-term pregnancies. It causes fetal anaemia, with or without fetal
distress and hydrops fetalis. To our knowledge only one paper has
reported a neurological complication (hemiplegia). We describe one case
of FMH (maximal Kleihauer test = 6.5%) at 28 weeks gestation, which was
spontaneous, reversible, associated with sinusoidal fetal heart rare
(FHR) and hydrops fetalis; and complicated by an intraventricular
antenatal haemorrhage at 30 weeks gestation. Echographic abnormalities
decreased. The infant was born at 40 weeks gestation. Clinical
examination was normal during the first week of life. At the age of 4
1/2 months, examination showed axial hypotonia and moderated dilatation
of intracerebral lateral ventricules without any other brain damage. At
the age of 24 months, the child had retarded walking and hypotonia. The
outcome was spontaneously favourable with disappearance in utero of the
intraventricular haemorrhage (HIV), without hydrocephalia or ischaemic
lesions. Three cases of similar FMH have been reported but none of them
described cerebral complications. Intrauterine intravascular transfusion
should be proposed early. No single pathophysiological mechanism of FMH
has been universally accepted and there is no aetiological treatment.
The risk of recurrence of FMH in later pregnancies requires careful
follow-up.
DE Adult Case Report Cerebral Hemorrhage/*ETIOLOGY/ULTRASONOGRAPHY
*Cerebral Ventricles Developmental Disabilities/ETIOLOGY English
Abstract Female Fetomaternal Transfusion/*COMPLICATIONS Follow-Up
Studies Hemiplegia/ETIOLOGY Human Infant, Newborn Pregnancy JOURNAL
ARTICLE REVIEW REVIEW OF REPORTED CASES
SOURCE: National Library of Medicine. NOTICE: This material may be
protected by Copyright Law (Title 17, U.S.Code).