[A neonate with abnormal eye movements]. / Afwijkende oogbewegingen bij een neonaat.

Few hours after birth, a neonate showed abnormal eye movements with episodes of downward gazing with a vertical nystagmus. Electrolytes were normal and CRP was low. Cerebral ultrasound and amplitude integrated electroencephalography showed no abnormalities. The abnormal eye movements resolved spontaneously. The infant was diagnosed with paroxysmal tonic downgaze of infancy.

[A child with inexplicable alteration of consciousness]. / Een kleuter met onbegrepen gedaald bewustzijn.

A 4-year-old girl presented with an alteration of consciousness and absence of speech after a short period of vomiting, diarrhoea and fever. MRI of the brain revealed a focal lesion in the splenium of the corpus callosum. Rotavirus was detected in the faeces. We concluded that the rotavirus infection had caused mild encephalopathy with a reversible splenial lesion.