[Apraxia of gait: an acquired sequela with a poor prognosis]. / Apraxia de la marcha: una secuela adquirida de evolución desfavorable.

INTRODUCTION: Gait apraxia is not used to be considered as a diagnostic entity in Pediatric Neurology. CASE REPORTS: We present two pediatric patients that, after to have acquired normal gait and in consequence of a acute process, they lost the capacity to walk. In spite of intensive rehabilitation treatment hold along various years, they had not been able to help them. Both injury were very dissimilar; in one of them was affected the precentral and paracentral cortex in consequence of an encephalitic process. In the other, the basal ganglia and the hippocampus after a situation of near-drowning at the age of 15 months. CONCLUSION: The mechanism of this disorder is discussed and emphasis is done in its badly long-term prognosis.

Apraxia de la marcha: una secuela adquirida de evolución desfavorable / Apraxia of gait: an acquired sequela with a poor prognosis

Introducción. La apraxia de la marcha es una entidad que no se tiene en cuenta en la práctica de la Neurología infantil. Casos clínicos. Se presentan dos pacientes pediátricos que, tras adquirir la marcha, y a consecuencia de un proceso agudo, perdieron la capacidad de caminar, sin que las intensivas técnicas de rehabilitación hayan podido ayudarles a lo largo de varios años. Las lesiones eran heterogéneas en ambos casos, ya que en el primero resultó afectad la corteza precentral y paracentral a consecuencia de un proceso inflamatorio de tipo encefalítico, y en el otro, los núcleos de la base cerebral y los hipocampos, a consecuencia de una situación de casi ahogamiento a la edad de 15 meses. Conclusión. Se discuten los mecanismos atribuidos a estos trastornos y se hace hincapié en su mal pronóstico a largo plazo

Introduction. Gait apraxia is not used to be considered as a diagnostic entitiy in Pediatric Neurology. Case reports. We present two pediatric patients that, after to have acquired normal gait and in consequence of a acute process, they lost the capacity to walk. In spite of intensive rehabilitation treatement hold along various years, they had not been able to help them. Both injury were very dissimilar; in one of them was affected the precentral and paracentral cortex in consequence of an encephalitic process. In the other, the basal ganglia and the hippocampus after a situation of near-drowning at the age of 15 months. Conclusion. The mechanism of this disorder is discussed and emphasis is done in its badly long-term prognosis