Neurology Chapter of IAP Dr. Arun Agrawal MD, MNAMS, FIAP, FIAMS, MIUAT (Paris), FICMCH • Consultant Pediatrician & Neonatologist, Ghaziabad • National Chairperson – Neurology Chapter of IAP • Honorary Professor of Pediatrics ICMCH • National Convener – Community Pediatrics, Chapter of IAP • National Vice President IAP 2004 Approach to Floppy Infant
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Neurology Chapter of IAP
Dr. Arun AgrawalMD, MNAMS, FIAP, FIAMS, MIUAT (Paris), FICMCH
• Consultant Pediatrician & Neonatologist, Ghaziabad• National Chairperson – Neurology Chapter of IAP • Honorary Professor of Pediatrics ICMCH • National Convener – Community Pediatrics, Chapter of IAP • National Vice President IAP 2004
Approach to
Floppy Infant
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Floppy Infant
Floppy infant refers to those children
presenting with generalized hypotonia, most
often arising out of an insult incurred during
fetal or neonatal period.
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Posture
The floppy infant assumes a frog legged
position. On ventral suspension, the
baby can not maintain limb posture
against gravity and assumes the position
of a rag doll.
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Movements
The muscles appear flabby. There is
diminished resistance to passive
movement of the limbs and the range of
movement of the peripheral joints is
increased.
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Scarf Sign
Put the child in a supine position and hold one of the infant’s hands. Try to put it around the neck as far as possible around the opposite shoulder. Observe how far the elbow goes across the body. In a floppy infant, the elbow easily crosses the midline.
Pull to sit:When pulled up from the supine to the sitting position, the head of the baby lags.
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Causes of Floppy Infant Syndrome
1. Central nervous systemPerinatal asphyxia, neonatal, encephalopathy, kernicterus, cerebral palsy (atonic type), intracranial hemorrhage, chromosomal anomalies including down syndrome and inborn errors of metabolism e.g., aminocidurias, mucopolysaccharidosis and cerebral lipidosis.
Many hypotonic children due to causes in central nervous system are mentally retarded. In atonic or hypotonic cerebral palsy, reflexes are brisk in spite of generalized flaccidity. Floppy infant due to cerebral causes is associated with lethargy, poor feeding, and lack of alertness, poor Moro’s reflex, and seizures during the neonatal period.
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Werdnig Hoffman disease
It is characterized by marked hypotonia, sluggish fetal movement, and fasciculation of tongue. The child is alert. Feeding behaviour and cry are poor. Deep tendon reflexes are absent. Muscle biopsy shows neurogenic type of atrophy or that the muscle spindles are atrophied in groups. Disease is inherited as an autosomal may be available. Death occurs by 2-4 years of age.
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Myasthenia gravisMmyasthenia gravis may occur in about 12 percent of the babies
born to mothers with the disease. It is characterized by marked
hypotonia, pooling of oral secretions, poor feeding, feeble cry and
generalized muscle weakness appearing within 2-3 days after the
birth. Baby is alert. Facial weakness manifests by mark-like facies,
open mouth and staring look. External opthalmoplegia and ptosis are
rare. Deep tendon reflexes are normal. The prognosis is
substantiated by improvement in the muscle functions following
intramuscular injection of edrophonium chloride 1 mg or neostigmine
methyl sulfate 0.1 mg. the condition lasts for 3 to 4 weeks. The child
is treated with neostigmine methyl sulphate 0.1 to 0.5 mg IM 10
minutes before each feel for 1 or 2 days followed by neostigmine
bromide, 1 to 4 mg orally half an hour before each feed.
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Congenital myopathies
These are rare inherited disorders resulting in a benign congenital hypotonia, with generally good outlook for normal life span. Nemaline myopathy is the most common variant. Other disorders of this group include the central core disease, myotubular myopathy and congenital fiber type disproportion.
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OthersIn polyneuritis there is symmetrical weakness of the limbs with sensory changes. The diagnosis of Pompe’s disease is suspected when the child has macroglossia, cardiomegaly and generalized hypotonia. Babies with prader-willi syndrome are mentally retarded and obese; deep tendon reflexes are diminished. Diabetes mellitus occurs later in life. Testes may be undescended. Ehlers-danlos syndrome is characterized by hyperelasticity of the skin, hyperflexibility of joints and extreme, fragility of skin. Wound healing is delayed and there are frelly movable subcutaneous nodules. In cutis laxa, the child has loose skin hanging in baggy folds.
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Profile of Floppy Patients (n = 70)
Prof. V. Kalra et.al. 2001
Disorder No. %
Spinal muscular atrophy – Type I 13 18.6
Spinal muscular atrophy – Type II 17 24.3
Spinal muscular atrophy – Type III 7 10.0
Diaphragmatic SMA 1 1.4
Congenital myopathy 7 10.0
Congenital muscular dystrophy 5 7.1
Mitochondrial myopathy 4 5.7
Hereditary sensory motor neuropathy 3 4.3
Hereditary sensory autonomic neuropathy type IV 2 2.9
Unclassified 11 15.7
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Key Messages of this Study
• Spinal muscular atrophy emerged as the commonest cause of floppy children followed by congenital muscle disease.
• 11% of the cases still remained unclassified despite sophisticated investigative techniques.
• EMG was a good screening modality for floppy children.
• A low gene deletion rate (50%) was observed in our phenotype
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Key Messages in Approach to a Floppy Child
• First ABC of resuscitation • Try to find out cause but again simple clinical
examination is the first thing• Any sedative drug given during labour • Investigations • Only those investigations which are necessary • Sepsis • Sepsis without sepsis• Another sophisticated investigations• Improve the quality of life probably quantity can not be