RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Perinatal stroke in term infants with neonatal encephalopathy
JF Neurology
JO Neurology
FD Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
SP 2088
OP 2091
DO 10.1212/01.WNL.0000129909.77753.C4
VO 62
IS 11
A1 V. Ramaswamy
A1 S. P. Miller
A1 A. J. Barkovich
A1 J. C. Partridge
A1 D. M. Ferriero
YR 2004
UL http://n.neurology.org/content/62/11/2088.abstract
AB In a prospective cohort of 124 encephalopathic term infants, six infants had an acute focal stroke. All six encephalopathic patients with strokes presented with seizures. Neurodevelopmental outcome at 30 months was abnormal in all six patients and significantly worse when compared with the entire cohort overall. These findings suggest that in newborns with encephalopathy, acute focal strokes are an uncommon but serious occurrence with substantial risk for abnormal neurodevelopmental outcome.