Alobar Holoprosencephaly
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.35563/rmp.v10i3.447Keywords:
Holoprosencefalia, ciclopía, probóscide, arriniaAbstract
Holoprosencephaly (HPE) is a brain malformation caused by an incorrect cleavage of the forebrain during days 18 to 28 of gestation. The alobar type (ball type variant) being its most frequent and severe classic form, which occurs with a single cerebral ventricle and without interhemispheric fissure and associated facial anomalies. In this work, a patient born by cesarean section at 35 weeks of gestation is presented, attended in the Obstetrics service of the Regional Hospital of Ica-Peru, with a prenatal ultrasound diagnosis (34 weeks) of Holoprosencephaly. At birth, the exploration
of the external habit is observed Newborn of female sex with cranial malformations (microcephaly with closure of
sutures and fontanelles) and facial (cyclopia, arrinia with proboscis and micrognathia), who dies at 3 hours of birth. We report this case because it is an infrequent and rare pathology in our environment. The review of the literature on this pathology aims to discover the etiology, risk factors, incidence, characteristics and various diagnostic methods of HPE-
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