Fetal-Neonatal Neurology Program
Children with neonatal brain injury or congenital brain conditions need specialized care. We start this journey with you during pregnancy. Our Fetal-Neonatal Neurologists are part of the Fetal Health Center. We assist with prenatal consultations through multi-disciplinary collaboration. After the birth of your child, we follow your child in our dedicated Fetal Neurology Follow-Up Clinic.
Our Fetal-Neonatal Neurologists have expertise in Neonatal Neurocritical Care. If your baby is admitted to our Neonatal Intensive Care Unit with concerns for a neurological condition, our team will provide timely and compassionate care. After discharge from the NICU, our team will guide neurological care in the multi-disciplinary Neonatal Follow-Up Clinic (NNFC).
We offer specialized follow up clinics for Pediatric Stroke, Neurogenetic conditions and children under age 2 years.
Conditions we treat
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Brain injury in premature infants (periventricular leukomalacia, intraventricular hemorrhage).
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Congenital brain malformations (such as absent septum pellucidum, agenesis or dysgenesis of corpus callosum, congenital aqueductal stenosis, Dandy-Walker malformation, holoprosencephaly, malformations of cortical development, posterior-fossa or brainstem malformations, septo-optic dysplasia).
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Congenital infections (such as congenital cytomegalovirus, herpes simplex virus).
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Hypoxic-Ischemic brain injury.
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In utero brain injury.
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Neonatal or infant stroke.
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Concern for abnormal development, microcephaly or macrocephaly.
Pediatric stroke: Ben's story
The Children’s Mercy Comprehensive Stroke Clinic stabilized newborn Ben McKinnon using blood thinners after he had a life-threatening perinatal stroke. Today, the toddler is walking and running, thanks to early intervention.
