Perinatal Events and Brain Damage in Surviving Children

Chapter 1 Definitions, Risks, and Indices

Chapter 2 The Quantification of Risk Factors in Major Neurodevelopmental Disorders

Chapter 3 Epidemiologic Panorama of Brain Impairments and Causative Factors — Swedish Experiences

Chapter 4 Low Birthweight and Neurological Sequelae — A Summary of Some Swedish Studies

Chapter 5 Genetic Factors Leading to Birth Defects and Diseases of the Newborn

Chapter 6 Developmental Neurology of the Fetus and Newborn

Chapter 7 Pathophysiological Mechanisms Leading to Permanent Brain Damage in Surviving Children

Chapter 8 Trauma and the Developing Brain

Chapter 9 How and When Does Antenatal Hypoxia Damage Fetal Brains?

Chapter 10 Antepartum Events and Cerebral Handicap

Chapter 11 Available Evidence Relating Intrauterine Growth Retardation to Neuromotor Dysfunction and Mental Handicap

Chapter 12 Growth Retardation: Individual Risk Assessment During Pregnancy

Chapter 13 Management of Growth Retardation with a View to Preventing Neuromotor Dysfunction and Mental Handicaps

Chapter 14 Abnormal Antepartum Cardiotocogram and Neuromotor Dysfunction in Term and Preterm Babies

Chapter 15 Antepartum Fetal Heart Rate and Movement Pattern in Relation to Oxygenation and Neonatal Neurological Morbidity

Chapter 16 Intrapartum Events and Cerebral Palsy

Chapter 17 The Relationship Between Obstetrically Preventable Intrapartum Asphyxia, Abnormal Neonatal Neurological Signs and Subsequent Motor Impairment in Babies Born at or after Term

Chapter 18 Available Evidence Relating Abnormal Intrapartum Fetal Acid Base Balance (pH) to Neuromotor Dysfunction and Mental Handicap

Chapter 19 Intrapartum Cardiotocogram, Apgar Score and Acidaemia at Birth: Relationship to Neonatal Neurological Morbidity

Chapter 20 Neurological Morbidity of Term Infants as an Indicator of Safe Obstetrical Practice

Chapter 21 Breech Delivery in the Term Fetus — Relation to Neuromotor Dysfunction and Mental Handicap

Chapter 22 Pathological Anatomy of Intraventricular Haemorrhage in the Preterm Baby

Chapter 23 Hypoxia, Loss of Autoregulation and Intracranial Hemorrhage

Chapter 24 Obstetrical Factors and Intracranial Hemorrhage

Chapter 25 Prevention of Intraventricular Hemorrhage: Role of Atraumatic Birth and Sedation

Chapter 26 Prediction of Outcome: Periventricular Hemorrhage Versus Ischemia

Chapter 27 Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy of the Brain and Early Neurodevelopmental Outcome

Chapter 28 Outcome of Very Low Birthweight or Very Preterm Infants with Special Consideration of Perinatal Events

Chapter 29 Role of Transport for the Prognosis of the Very Low Birthweight Preterm Infant

Chapter 30 Improved Outcome of Very Low Birthweight Infants 1977–1986. Critical Analysis of Results and Possible Mechanisms

Chapter 31 Decreasing Incidence of Neurological Morbidity and Changes of Perinatal Care Strategies in Very Low Birthweight Infants

Chapter 32 Prevention of Preterm Labor — A Means of Preventing Handicaps?

Chapter 33 Causes of Handicap and Impairment in a Total Population of Dundee (Scotland) Children Aged 8 Weeks to 7 Years

Chapter 34 The Uruguayan Follow-up Study of Perinatal Events and Mental Handicaps

Chapter 35 First Results of the Multicenter Finnish-Bavarian Study

Chapter 36 Neurological Sequelae of Infants with Very Low Birthweight in Hamburg. First Results of a Regional Study