Yes we had the same experience, Michael had the Choriod Plexus Cyst also, I don't recall the exact time during pregnancy that it was spotted but at 25 weeks it was no longer visible.
Michael also had a difficult birth, I was given Pitocin which cause his heartrate to go eratic and he also wasn't getting enough oxygen.
As far as the cyst, I was told it came with a small rish. 1% chance of Trisomy, and 1% chance of ANY type of birth defect.
I really don't know if there is any correlation between Michael's developmental delays , PDD and the Cyst though i do believe Michael was born with this disorder as I noticed and sensed problems with Michael from very early on.
Hi,
Yes, the girls both had choroid plexus cysts. They, too, resolved on their own and weren't considered troubling and an amnio came back ok.
This cysts are normal, and aren't considered a marker unless they're present past some certain gestational time period. My sense is that, like at every other stage of their lives, the girls were delayed at that point in their development, too. I sometimes wonder if there wasn't some nutritional or placental defeciency that caused slower than normal brain development and led the problems we have today.
Their mother believes that it is somehow connected. They are a soft marker for known genetic disorders, so it seems logical that they might be a soft marker for some unknown genetic disorders, too - the girl's flavour of autism perhaps being one.
Hello,
I would like to do a little informal research. At around the 14th week of pregnancy we had an ultrasound that showed a Choroid Plexus Cyst in our son's brain. None of the other testing indicated any chromosomal problems, and the cyst shrank some, but did not totally disappear. According to all present day data, this is not a problem. But I'm wondering if in reality it is somehow linked to our son's high functioning autism, maybe an indicator of some type. Also want to note that my husband was 40, and I was 6 days away from being 40 when Jordan was born.
If you experienced this same sort of thing during your pregnancy, would you please send me some brief details.
Thanks so much!
I asked my OB/GYN about this last week when I had my yearly exam. He said that it would be worth researching, and suggested I contact UNC at Chapel Hill. (We live in NC.) I did call them, and I spoke to a research assistant about it. It wasn't his field of research, but he said he would pass on the information. From what I can tell, no one has looked at this.
Considering that 1% of all pregnancies have this cyst, if a larger than 1% of this forum had this cyst occur, then we may have discovered something.
Carol,
I understand what you are saying, but let me see if I can explain my logic behind this a little more fully. The Autism Spectrum is very large, and the number of children identified as autistic is increasing at a pretty steady rate. Because the sprectrum is so varied, my theory is that there are a variety of causes, each linked to a different location on the spectrum. Since I only have my son and our experience to go by, I am using that to try to see if the cyst might be an indicator for the particular section of the spectrum where we fall.
The fact that the cyst is seen in about 1% of pregnancies where ultrasounds are performed doesn't really influence the question at hand. If there happens to be a significant number of high functioning autistic children who had this cyst during development, then it could possibly give us some insight into this one particular section of the spectrum.
I understand what your getting at I'm just thinking the odds are too high. IF 1% of all pregnancies have the cyst and only 1% of those have a chance of defects it sounds like a long shot considering Autism is affecting 1 in 162 children. The cause would have to have a larger percentage than 1% of 1% which is a tiny fraction.........make sense????I actually had the opposite experience: No cysts for Connor, but my NT daughter did have them during my pregnancy, though they had disappeared by the time I had a follow-up 3-D ultrasound.
This is my first post -- I was just checking online to see if there was any new information on possible connections between the cysts and ASD. My six-year old, who has Asperger's Syndrome, had choroid plexus cysts that resolved. Neither of my NT sons had this problem. I have also wondered about the connection between these, and there seems to be enough anecdotal evidence that it should be a candidate for a more scientific study.
Ian was diagnosed around age three, but it was clear that there were problems from early infancy -- hypersensitive, early obsessive disorders and astounding abilities to memorize things like the multiplication tables before he was 2. In the past 4 years, we have had wonderful success with DMG and some other nutritional/vitamin therapies. He went from total echololalia to original sentences in three days after starting DMG and is now doing well in a regular 1st grade classroom. He still has Aspie personality traits and some behavioral tics, but he's highly verbal and increasingly social.
Robin - we're also in the Triangle area. We're UNC alum who've just moved back to the area (Cary) last year.