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Congenital paraplegia following maternal hypotension
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 April 1999
Abstract
Congenital paraplegia, with partial improvement over the first months of life, occurred in a female neonate born at 35 weeks' gestation, whose mother had suffered hypotension and hypoxaemia due to anaphylaxis 12 weeks earlier. Our patient subsequently had an acute encephalopathy during a respiratory illness with later developmental delay. We speculate that the baby's paraplegia resulted from spinal-cord ischaemia in utero. The aim of this report is to describe the spinal presentation.
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