title: Mechanisms of perinatal brain injury.
abstract: Perinatal brain injury is associated with pathological conditions caused by pathogenetic mechanisms that remain unclear. Brain lesions can result not only from brain injury but may also originate during fetal growth. Fetal encephalopathy includes 4 groups of causes: maternal, fetal, placental and idiopathic. Hypoxic-ischemic lesions (periventricular leucomalacia and subcortical leucomalacia) and hemorrhage lesions (germinal hemorrhage) are discussed.
authors.affiliation: Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, University of Chieti, Chieti, Italy.
authors.forename: G M D
authors.initials: GM
authors.lastname: Sabatino
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Domizio
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Cicioni
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Sabatino
mesh_terms: D001927:Brain Diseases / Q000196:embryology* / Q000209:etiology*; D005260:Female; D005315:Fetal Diseases; D006801:Humans; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D011247:Pregnancy; D011248:Pregnancy Complications; D014652:Vascular Diseases / Q000150:complications