PMID: 8441102Mar 1, 1993Paper

Spinal cord injury at birth: diagnostic and prognostic data in twenty-two patients

The Journal of Pediatrics
J A MacKinnonL Kovacs

Abstract

To establish criteria, evident soon after birth, that predict long-term outcome of neonates with spinal cord injury (SCI) at birth. Retrospective case-series. Five Canadian regional neonatal tertiary care centers. Consecutive samples of patients referred to five centers for a total of 22 subjects, in whom SCI was diagnosed during life. Sites of lesions were above the fourth cervical vertebrae (n = 14), at the fourth cervical to the fourth thoracic vertebrae (n = 6), and at the thoracolumbar region (n = 2). All 14 patients with upper cervical SCI had cephalic presentations, whereas all 6 patients with cervicothoracic SCI had breech presentations (p < 0.0001). The site and extent of lesion were best diagnosed by clinico-imaging correlations. Ultrasonography appeared to be the most useful imaging study. In patients with upper cervical SCI who had no coexistent central nervous system abnormality associated with early death, long-term outcome in survivors (dependency on mechanical ventilation and on aids for upper limb activity and for ambulation) was best predicted by age when breathing was first observed and by rate of recovery of limb motor function in the first 3 months. The presence of breathing movements on day 1 (n = 2) was a...Continue Reading

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