1043-3155 Pediatr Neurol Briefs pedneurbriefs Pediatr Neurol Briefs Pediatric Neurology Briefs Pediatr Neurol Briefs 2166-6482 1043-3155 2166-3155 Pediatric Neurology Briefs Publishers Chicago, IL, USA PNB-5-24-b 10.15844/pedneurbriefs-5-3-11 Movement Disorders Neurology Pediatrics Nervous System Diseases Child Development Brain Diseases Neurosurgery Child Infant Dystonia Due to Perinatal Asphyxia http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0173-7931 Millichap J. Gordon MD 1 2 * Division of Neurology, Children's Memorial Hospital, Chicago, IL Departments of Pediatrics and Neurology, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL Correspondence: Dr. J. Gordon Millichap, E-mail: jgmillichap@northwestern.edu 03 1991 01 07 2016 5 3 24 24 Copyright: © 1991 The Author(s) 1991 This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Delayed-onset dystonia due to perinatal or early childhood asphyxia

Delayed onset dystonia associated with perinatal asphyxia in two patients and asphyxia in early childhood in two patients is reported from the Neurological Institute of New York.

 Dystonia Perinatal Asphyxia Motor Disability

Delayed onset dystonia associated with perinatal asphyxia in two patients and asphyxia in early childhood in two patients is reported from the Neurological Institute of New York. In the perinatal group the mean age of onset was 12.9 years; dystonia progressed for a mean of 7 years and as long as 28 years. The patients had moderate motor disability and none was wheelchair bound. The prognosis was better than that of childhood onset idiopathic torsion dystonias. In the absence of any identifiable cause of dystonia the authors considered the asphyxia as related either directly or indirectly to the development of dystonia. [1]

COMMENT. Despite the known difficulties in relating adverse perinatal events to static encephalopathies of childhood, the authors claim a relationship between perinatal asphyxia and late onset dystonia based on exclusion of other cuases of dystonia and documentation by birth records or a verbal history that asphyxia occurred.

 Saint Hilaire MH Burke RE Bressman SB Brin MF Fahn S Delayed-onset dystonia due to perinatal or early childhood asphyxia Neurology 1991 Feb 41 2 (Pt 1) 216 222 10.1212/WNL.41.2_Part_1.216 1992364