TY - JOUR
T1 - Bilateral middle cerebral artery thromboembolic occlusion. Could maternal hyperthermia be a detrimental factor?
AU - Spalice, Alberto
AU - Del Balzo, Francesca
AU - Papetti, Laura
AU - Nicita, Francesco
AU - Ursitti, Fabiana
AU - Salvatori, Guglielmo
AU - Iannetti, Paola
PY - 2011/8
Y1 - 2011/8
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
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U2 - 10.1016/j.mehy.2011.04.023
DO - 10.1016/j.mehy.2011.04.023
M3 - Article
C2 - 21565450
AN - SCOPUS:79960650781
VL - 77
SP - 250
EP - 252
JO - Medical Hypotheses
JF - Medical Hypotheses
SN - 0306-9877
IS - 2
ER -