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Case Reports
. 2007 Aug;79(8):614-6.
doi: 10.1002/bdra.20379.

Cerebral palsy due to nonlethal maternal carbon monoxide intoxication

Füsun Alehan  1 , Ilknur Erol, Ozge Sürmeli Onay
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Cerebral palsy due to nonlethal maternal carbon monoxide intoxication

Füsun Alehan et al. Birth Defects Res A Clin Mol Teratol. 2007 Aug.

Abstract

Background: Carbon monoxide (CO) poisoning in pregnancy is a relatively rare occurrence, but it can result in fetal mortality and neurologic complications in fetuses who survive to term.

Case: We describe the course of an infant who was acutely exposed to CO at 20 weeks of gestation.

Conclusions: We conclude that despite maternal well-being, CO intoxication at critical periods of human brain development can lead to hypoxic-ischemic lesions in the globus pallidus and that dystonic cerebral palsy may develop in the infant during long-term follow-up.

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