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A case of pulmonary hypoplasia associated with intrauterine brainstem necrosis
1Department of Paediatrics, Nihon University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan. endo@toshima-hp.metro.tokyo.jp
European Journal of Pediatrics
|January 5, 2002
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An infant with intrauterine brain death accompanied by pulmonary hypoplasia is reported. The fetus was delivered after 36 weeks gestation, 5 weeks after fetal movements ceased. The child died 4 h after birth. Pulmonary hypoplasia and remote brainstem necrosis associated with multicystic encephalomalacia were found at autopsy.
Conclusion:
These findings suggest that damage to brainstem respiratory centres had led to pulmonary hypoplasia through the absence of fetal respiratory movement.