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. 1974 May;49(5):367-75.
doi: 10.1136/adc.49.5.367.

Periventricular leucomalacia in neonates. Complications and sequelae

D Armstrong, M G Norman

Periventricular leucomalacia in neonates. Complications and sequelae

D Armstrong et al. Arch Dis Child. 1974 May.

Abstract

Periventricular leucomalacia was examined in a total of 28 infants. These foci of infarction were attributed to episodes of failure of perfusion due to hypotension in a border zone between ventriculofugal and ventriculopetal circulations. We describe haemorrhage occurring into these infarctions as a complication occurring in 7 infants. In 2 infants with a bleeding diathesis the haemorrhage was massive and fatal. Descending degeneration of the corticospinal tract was present as a sequel of a large area of periventricular leucomalacia in another case.

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