Sentences with phrase «small head circumference»

This leads to abnormal brain development and a small head circumference as well as dysfunction of peripheral nerves.

Researchers from the School of Medicine at the University of California at San Diego analyzed medical records of 48 autistic children and found that small head circumference at birth, coupled with a sudden excessive increase in head size during a child's first year, appears to be linked with autism.

Structural eye anomalies (in particular, microphthalmia and coloboma), cataracts, intraocular calcifications, and posterior ocular findings have been reported in infants with presumed and laboratory - confirmed prenatal ZIKV infection; however, posterior findings have been the most prevalent.21,25,28,33,35,36,41 - 43 Case series report chorioretinal atrophy, focal pigmentary mottling of the retina, and optic nerve atrophy / anomalies.28, 34,37,41 - 43,55 Series of 20 or more infants with presumed ZIKV - associated microcephaly report ocular findings in 24 % to 55 %.28, 33,42 In one study, testing for ZIKV IgM was performed in 24 of 40 infants (60 %) with microcephaly and the results were positive in the cerebrospinal fluid in 100 % of those tested.42 The proportion of infants with ocular lesions did not differ in those with and without testing.42 In that series, first trimester maternal infection and smaller head circumference significantly correlated with the presence of abnormal ocular findings.42

Conclusions Compared to offspring of adult women, children of adolescent mothers have lower mean scores on cognitive measures, smaller head circumference, and higher BMI.

Not exact matches

My baby is now close to 37 weeks, breech, and asymmetrically growth restricted, with an abdominal circumference of only 28.5 cm, several cm smaller than his head.

William Jungers of Stony Brook University notes that there is no known case of Down syndrome (ancient or modern) in which an individual had a head circumference as small as LB1's.

Sonograms of the fetus — which are posted online — «sort of» show evidence that the head circumference is small, but O'Connor and colleagues «are not drawing too much attention to it,» he says, because it's not that far outside of the normal range.