Fetal intracranial hemorrhage in a case of 16p microdeletion
Margarita Álvarez-de-la-Rosa Rodríguez1, Mercedes Hernández-Suárez1, Ana Isabel Padilla-Pérez1
1Obstetrics and Gynecology Service, Hospital Universitario de Canarias, La Laguna, Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain.
Objectives:
Intracranial hemorrhages are common events in premature infants but in fetal life those incidents are often of ominous prognosis and unknown etiology.
Case Presentation:
We present the diagnosis, evolution and management of a fetal hemorrhagic accident associated with an inherited maternal microdeletion of the chromosome 16 short arm. Abnormal neurosonography in routine second trimester ultrasound led to follow up. Fetal germinal matrix hemorrhage along with severe asymmetric ventriculomegaly and a secondary periventricular cyst developed in the early third trimester. Array CGH showed microdeletion 16p11.2.
Conclusions:
This microdeletion had not been previously associated with fetal intracranial hemorrhage.
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