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A healthy woman presented with an antepartum haemorrhage at 35/40 during a low-risk pregnancy with normal antenatal bloods and anomaly scan at 20/40 gestation. Following an abnormal ultrasound (USS), the baby was delivered by emergency C-section.
A male infant was born in good condition but admitted to the neonatal unit for monitoring. Examination revealed global hypotonia, a weak uncoordinated suck and absent Moro reflex. He had widened sagittal sutures and a large posterior fontanelle. The remainder of the examination was unremarkable. Abnormal bloods are shown in table 1.
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He was treated for suspected sepsis due to jaundice and temperature instability.
Cranial USS was performed immediately (figure 1). Urgent MRI of the brain further characterised these abnormalities (figures 2–3).
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Contributors HM and KP drafted the manuscript jointly.
Funding The authors have not declared a specific grant for this research from any funding agency in the public, commercial or not-for-profit sectors.
Competing interests None declared.
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