Psychomotor development after ganciclovir selectively treated congenital and perinatal cytomegalovirus infection.

Aim: To study the development of children with selectively treated cytomegalovirus infection.

Patients And Methods: We studied prospectively a risk group of 12 children with cytomegalovirus infection. These children were diagnosed by serological screening in the first three months after birth and are defined as congenital and perinatal infections.

Spontaneous motor activity three months after birth in comparison with clinical and ultrasound studies.

Unlabelled: The introduction of the general movement assessment into pediatric practice as a prognostic method (HFR Prechtl, et al., 1997) has prompted the necessity of further, more extended study of spontaneous motor activity. Possible correlations of this method with the well-established diagnostic and prognostic methods in the neonatal and early post-neonatal period need also more extensive study.