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Reminder of important clinical lesson
CASE REPORT
Neonatal facial palsy, a case series: is CPAP the culprit?
  1. Aakash Pandita1,
  2. Namita Mishra2,
  3. Girish Gupta1,
  4. Amit Shukla1
  1. 1Neonatology, Sanjay Gandhi Post Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India
  2. 2Department of Neonatology, Sanjay Gandhi Post Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India
  1. Correspondence to Dr Aakash Pandita, aakash.pandita{at}gmail.com

Summary

We report a case series of three idiopathic unilateral facial nerve palsies in neonates with no identified risk factors. Neuroimaging done was normal. All the neonates had complete spontaneous recovery within a month, with no residual deficits. As per our knowledge, there are very few case reports of facial palsy in a neonate reported in literature and are often labelled as idiopathic.

  • neonatal health
  • materno-fetal medicine
  • neonatal and paediatric intensive care

https://doi.org/10.1136/bcr-2018-224842

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    Footnotes

    • Contributors NM and AP wrote the manuscript. GG and AS helped in corrections. AP and GG did the critical appraisal.

    • 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.

    • Patient consent parental/guardian consent obtained.

    • Provenance and peer review Not commissioned; externally peer reviewed.