Case 4-2017: A 2-Month-Old Girl with Growth Retardation and Respiratory Failure

A 2-month-old girl presented with respiratory failure and growth retardation. Imaging revealed periventricular heterotopia (which her mother and grandmother also had), architectural distortion of the lungs, and cardiac abnormalities. Diagnostic procedures were performed. Presentation of Case Dr. Megan P. Lambert (Pediatrics): A 2-month-old girl was admitted to the pediatric intensive care unit (ICU) of this hospital because of respiratory failure, growth retardation, and failure to thrive. The patient was born by vaginal delivery to a primigravida mother at another hospital after 39 weeks of gestation; labor was induced because of intrauterine growth retardation. The birth weight was 2.3 kg (first percentile), and Apgar scores were 6 and 8 at 1 and 5 minutes, respectively. The umbilical cord was two-vessel. The patient was admitted to the neonatal ICU. Perinatal examination reportedly revealed natal teeth, . . .