UNLABELLED: We wish to report two cases of congenital abnormality after antenatal car accidents resulting in ruptured spleen and severe hypotension in the mothers at 8 and 14 weeks gestation. The first case had the classical Moebius syndrome with 6th and 7th cranial nerve palsy with abnormal brain stem evoked responses, presumably due to hypoxic/ischaemic brain stem damage and the second case had severe retardation and hypertonic cerebral palsy which at post mortem was found to be due to old hypoxic/ischaemic lesions to the caudate nucleus putamen and striatum. CONCLUSION: The cases described provide evidence that severe maternal hypotension during pregnancy can be associated with lesions to the midbrain and brain stem of offspring. The mechanism is probably utero-placental insufficiency, and extrapolation from these two unusual cases would support utero-placental insufficiency as a cause of Moebius syndrome and limb deficiency after chorionic villus sampling.
UNLABELLED: We wish to report two cases of congenital abnormality after antenatal car accidents resulting in ruptured spleen and severe hypotension in the mothers at 8 and 14 weeks gestation. The first case had the classical Moebius syndrome with 6th and 7th cranial nerve palsy with abnormal brain stem evoked responses, presumably due to hypoxic/ischaemic brain stem damage and the second case had severe retardation and hypertonic cerebral palsy which at post mortem was found to be due to old hypoxic/ischaemic lesions to the caudate nucleus putamen and striatum. CONCLUSION: The cases described provide evidence that severe maternal hypotension during pregnancy can be associated with lesions to the midbrain and brain stem of offspring. The mechanism is probably utero-placental insufficiency, and extrapolation from these two unusual cases would support utero-placental insufficiency as a cause of Moebius syndrome and limb deficiency after chorionic villus sampling.
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