Early predictors of one-year outcome for infants asphyxiated at birth.
This study attempted to identify within the first 48 hours of life those infants sustaining hypoxic-ischemic insults and destined to have neurodevelopmental abnormalities at one year of age. Neurological examination and cranial CT scan were quantitated to provide a post-asphyxia score and CT low-density index for each of 34 fullterm infants. The post-asphyxia score and CT infarction index were used to predict infants with normal and abnormal outcomes at one year of age, and both were valuable predictors of neurodevelopmental sequelae.
D001238:Asphyxia Neonatorum / Q000150:complications / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000523:psychology*; D001921:Brain / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D002544:Cerebral Infarction / Q000209:etiology; D002657:Child Development; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D009460:Neurologic Examination; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed