Article ; Online: Fetal stroke and cerebrovascular disease: Advances in understanding from lenticulostriate and venous imaging, alloimmune thrombocytopaenia and monochorionic twins.
2018 Volume 22, Issue 6, Page(s) 989–1005
Abstract: ... alloimmune and autoimmune thrombocytopaenia, maternal and fetal clotting disorders and trauma but these are ... risk factors for focal embolism and cerebrovascular disease. The recipient has circulatory overload ... Fetal stroke is an important cause of cerebral palsy but is difficult to diagnose unless imaging is ...
Abstract | Fetal stroke is an important cause of cerebral palsy but is difficult to diagnose unless imaging is undertaken in pregnancies at risk because of known maternal or fetal disorders. Fetal ultrasound or magnetic resonance imaging may show haemorrhage or ischaemic lesions including multicystic encephalomalacia and focal porencephaly. Serial imaging has shown the development of malformations including schizencephaly and polymicrogyra after ischaemic and haemorrhagic stroke. Recognised causes of haemorrhagic fetal stroke include alloimmune and autoimmune thrombocytopaenia, maternal and fetal clotting disorders and trauma but these are relatively rare. It is likely that a significant proportion of periventricular and intraventricular haemorrhages are of venous origin. Recent evidence highlights the importance of arterial endothelial dysfunction, rather than thrombocytopaenia, in the intraparenchymal haemorrhage of alloimmune thrombocytopaenia. In the context of placental anastomoses, monochorionic diamniotic twins are at risk of twin twin transfusion syndrome (TTTS), or partial forms including Twin Oligohydramnios Polyhydramnios Sequence (TOPS), differences in estimated weight (selective Intrauterine growth Retardation; sIUGR), or in fetal haemoglobin (Twin Anaemia Polycythaemia Sequence; TAPS). There is a very wide range of ischaemic and haemorrhagic injury in a focal as well as a global distribution. Acute twin twin transfusion may account for intraventricular haemorrhage in recipients and periventricular leukomalacia in donors but there are additional risk factors for focal embolism and cerebrovascular disease. The recipient has circulatory overload, with effects on systemic and pulmonary circulations which probably lead to systemic and pulmonary hypertension and even right ventricular outflow tract obstruction as well as the polycythaemia which is a risk factor for thrombosis and vasculopathy. The donor is hypovolaemic and has a reticulocytosis in response to the anaemia while maternal hypertension and diabetes may influence stroke risk. Understanding of the mechanisms, including the role of vasculopathy, in well studied conditions such as alloimmune thrombocytopaenia and monochorionic diamniotic twinning may lead to reduction of the burden of antenatally sustained cerebral palsy. |
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MeSH term(s) | Cerebrovascular Disorders ; Female ; Fetal Growth Retardation ; Fetofetal Transfusion/complications ; Fetus/diagnostic imaging ; Fetus/pathology ; Humans ; Placenta/pathology ; Polycythemia/complications ; Pregnancy ; Pregnancy, Twin ; Stroke/congenital ; Stroke/etiology ; Thrombocytopenia/complications ; Twins, Monozygotic ; Ultrasonography, Prenatal | ||||||||||
Language | English | ||||||||||
Publishing date | 2018-09-11 | ||||||||||
Publishing country | England | ||||||||||
Document type | Journal Article ; Review | ||||||||||
ZDB-ID | 1397146-3 | ||||||||||
ISSN | 1532-2130 ; 1090-3798 | ||||||||||
ISSN (online) | 1532-2130 | ||||||||||
ISSN | 1090-3798 | ||||||||||
DOI | 10.1016/j.ejpn.2018.08.008 | ||||||||||
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