Neuromuscular diseases as a cause of neonatal respiratory insufficiency
Dinger, J.; Lorenz, P.
Monatsschrift Kinderheilkunde Organ der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Kinderheilkunde 139(10): 692-694
1991
ISSN/ISBN: 0026-9298 PMID: 1961209 Document Number: 378892
Neuromuscular disorder can cause neonatal respiratory insufficiency. One male term newborn with Werdnig-Hoffmann disease and two preterm infants with congenital myotonic dystrophy Curshmann-Steinert-Batten are reported. Hydramnion, few spontaneous movements, prematurity, increasing respiratory insufficiency, hypotonia and myopathic facies of the mother are typical for congenital myotonic dystrophy.