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Does asphyxia cause cerebral palsy?
1Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Sciences, University of Texas-Houston Medical School, USA.
Seminars in Perinatology
|July 25, 2000
Abstract:
The incidence of cerebral palsy is 1 per 1,000, whereas the proportion caused by perinatal asphyxia is only 8% to 10%. The purpose of this article is to review the relationship between asphyxia and cerebral palsy. Only a minority of cases, those involving severe pathological fetal academia, are consistently associated with neonatal encephalopathy and an increased risk of cerebral palsy.