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-6-78-a 10.15844/pedneurbriefs-6-10-6 Muscle Diseases Neurology Pediatrics Nervous System Diseases Child Development Brain Diseases Neurosurgery Child Infant MRI in Congenital Myotonic Dystrophy 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 10 1992 01 07 2016 6 10 78 78 Copyright: © 1992 The Author(s) 1992 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. Neuroradiological findings in children with congenital myotonic dystrophy

The results of CT and MRI of the brain were analyzed and neurological development was assessed from the neonatal period in 7 children with congenital myotonic dystrophy aged 2-8 years at the Division of Neurology, Chiba Children’s Hospital and Department of Pediatrics, Chiba University School of Medicine, Chiba, Japan.

 Congenital Myotonic Dystrophy Perinatal Asphyxia Cerebral Atrophy

The results of CT and MRI of the brain were analyzed and neurological development was assessed from the neonatal period in 7 children with congenital myotonic dystrophy aged 2-8 years at the Division of Neurology, Chiba Children’s Hospital and Department of Pediatrics, Chiba University School of Medicine, Chiba, Japan. Ventricular dilatation seen on the first day of life in 2 of 3 infants had not progressed on follow-up CTs at intervals of 1-6 years. Areas of periventricular hyperintensity on T2 weighted MRIs were seen in all children, and an asphyxial episode at birth was responsible for the MRI abnormalities. Low developmental quotients ranging from 12 to 72 were not correlated with the extent of the periventricular hyperintensity or the ventriculomegaly. [1]

COMMENT. The mental retardation commonly found in children with congenital myotonic dystrophy was not attributable to brain damage due to perinatal asphyxia. There was no significant correlation between the severity of mental impairment and the degree of structural change in the brain assessed by periventricular hyperintensity on the MRI.

The frequency of cerebral atrophy, large ventricles, and dysmyelination in patients with Fukuyama’s congenital muscular dystrophy and occidental congenital muscular dystrophy are compared in a study from Riyadh, Saudi Arabia [2]. In 37 children with Fukuyama’s congenital muscular dystrophy, 75% were mentally retarded, 62% had cerebral atrophy, 81% large ventricles and 53% dysmyelination. The mental retardation in this disorder is attributed to a brain dysgenesis.

 Tanabe Y Iai M Tamai K Fujimoto N Sugita K Neuroradiological findings in children with congenital myotonic dystrophy Acta Paediatr 1992 Aug 81 8 613 617 10.1111/j.1651-2227.1992.tb12312.x 1392386 Cook J Gascon G Ann Neurol 1992 Sept 32 439 (abstr)