title: [Efficacy of EEG investigation in clinical diagnostics of high-risk newborns with nervous disturbances].
abstract: The aim of the article is to establish the correlation between pregnancy, delivery, newborns clinical diagnosis and the data of neonatal electroencephalography. 1500 full term newborns have been examined, 90 of them have been studied in catamnesis up to 3 months. Obtained data indicate that EEG investigation performed in the first days of life reflects the functional state of central nervous system of the newborn and detects pathological cases, which can later cause different nervous diseases. It's important that a small cohort of newborns (9.8%) with normal prenatal history and clinical state however revealed pathological EEG patterns. At the age of 1-3 months pathologic neurological symptoms have been revealed in most of them. As a result newborns' electroencephalographic investigation is a useful tool, which together with perinatal history and neurological assessment enables physician to make an objective diagnosis in high risk newborns and reveals sub clinical changes in central nervous system in "healthy" infants, which can later cause different nervous disturbances.
authors.forename: S I
authors.initials: SI
authors.lastname: Mikadze
authors.forename: N P
authors.initials: NP
authors.lastname: Kintraia
mesh_terms: D002493:Central Nervous System Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000503:physiopathology; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D004569:Electroencephalography; D005260:Female; D005315:Fetal Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000453:epidemiology; D006801:Humans; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D011247:Pregnancy; D011248:Pregnancy Complications / Q000453:epidemiology; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012307:Risk Factors