Conditions We Treat |Overview
In our Fetal-Neonatal Neurology Program at Boston Children’s Hospital, we provide comprehensive care for babies who experienced a brain injury or have a congenital neurological condition.
We care for children with a variety of conditions, including:
Conditions acquired in utero (before a child is born)—also called congenital (present at birth) conditions:
Brain malformations:
- holoprosencephaly
- schizencephaly
- lissencephaly
- pachygyria
- polymicrogyria
- periventricular nodular heterotopia
- other migrational disorders
- focal cortical dysplasias
- Chiari malformations, types I and II (spina bifida)
- agenesis or dysgenesis of the corpus callosum
- Dandy-Walker malformation and other malformations of the posterior fossa
- congenitalhydrocephalus, e.g., due toaqueductal stenosis
Congenital infections:
- congenital cytomegalovirus(CMV) infection
- congenital toxoplasmosis
- congenital herpes simplex virus(HSV) infection
- congenital rubella syndrome
- other congenital infections, such as:
- syphilis
- varicella syndrome(chickenpox)
- mumps
- fifth disease(parvovirus B19)
- HIV
- hydrocephalus,ventriculomegaly
- intraventricular hemorrhage(IVH)
Conditions acquired by newborns and young infants:
- hypoxic-ischemic brain injury
- newbornseizures
- newbornstroke
- hyperbilirubinemiaaffecting the brain
- hemorrhage (bleeding) in the brain
- germinal matrix hemorrhage (GMH),intraventricular hemorrhage(IVH)
- hydrocephalus, including posthemorrhagic hydrocephalus, benign external hydrocephalus
- meningitis
- encephalitis
- periventricular leukomalaciaor white matter injury
- brachial plexus palsy(Erb’s palsy)
- neurological follow-up of children who receive ECMO
Neurological symptoms or signs in newborns or young infants:
- seizures
- microcephaly
- macrocephaly
- plagiocephaly
- torticollis
- spasticity, hypertonia
- dystonia
- hypotonia
- quadriparesis, hemiparesis, diparesis
- visual problems, abnormal eye movements