Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of contributors
- Foreword
- Preface
- Section 1 Epidemiology, pathophysiology, and pathogenesis of fetal and neonatal brain injury
- Section 2 Pregnancy, labor, and delivery complications causing brain injury
- Section 3 Diagnosis of the infant with brain injury
- Section 4 Specific conditions associated with fetal and neonatal brain injury
- 22 Congenital malformations of the brain
- 23 Neurogenetic disorders of the brain
- 24 Hemorrhagic lesions of the central nervous system
- 25 Neonatal stroke
- 26 Hypoglycemia in the neonate
- 27 Hyperbilirubinemia and kernicterus
- 28 Polycythemia and fetal–maternal bleeding
- 29 Hydrops fetalis
- 30 Bacterial sepsis in the neonate
- 31 Neonatal bacterial meningitis
- 32 Neurological sequelae of congenital perinatal infection
- 33 Perinatal human immunodeficiency virus infection
- 34 Inborn errors of metabolism with features of hypoxic–ischemic encephalopathy
- 35 Acidosis and alkalosis
- 36 Meconium staining and the meconium aspiration syndrome
- 37 Persistent pulmonary hypertension of the newborn
- 38 Pediatric cardiac surgery: relevance to fetal and neonatal brain injury
- Section 5 Management of the depressed or neurologically dysfunctional neonate
- Section 6 Assessing outcome of the brain-injured infant
- Index
- Plate section
- References
24 - Hemorrhagic lesions of the central nervous system
from Section 4 - Specific conditions associated with fetal and neonatal brain injury
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 12 January 2010
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of contributors
- Foreword
- Preface
- Section 1 Epidemiology, pathophysiology, and pathogenesis of fetal and neonatal brain injury
- Section 2 Pregnancy, labor, and delivery complications causing brain injury
- Section 3 Diagnosis of the infant with brain injury
- Section 4 Specific conditions associated with fetal and neonatal brain injury
- 22 Congenital malformations of the brain
- 23 Neurogenetic disorders of the brain
- 24 Hemorrhagic lesions of the central nervous system
- 25 Neonatal stroke
- 26 Hypoglycemia in the neonate
- 27 Hyperbilirubinemia and kernicterus
- 28 Polycythemia and fetal–maternal bleeding
- 29 Hydrops fetalis
- 30 Bacterial sepsis in the neonate
- 31 Neonatal bacterial meningitis
- 32 Neurological sequelae of congenital perinatal infection
- 33 Perinatal human immunodeficiency virus infection
- 34 Inborn errors of metabolism with features of hypoxic–ischemic encephalopathy
- 35 Acidosis and alkalosis
- 36 Meconium staining and the meconium aspiration syndrome
- 37 Persistent pulmonary hypertension of the newborn
- 38 Pediatric cardiac surgery: relevance to fetal and neonatal brain injury
- Section 5 Management of the depressed or neurologically dysfunctional neonate
- Section 6 Assessing outcome of the brain-injured infant
- Index
- Plate section
- References
Summary
Intracranial hemorrhage in preterm infants
During the last decade, attention has increasingly been drawn to ischemic damage occurring in the periventricular white matter (PWMI, periventricular white-matter injury), compared to the early days of neonatal imaging, when the focus was on intracranial hemorrhage (ICH). This is due to improvements in neonatal brain imaging, from only having access to cranial ultrasound (US) and computed tomography (CT) in the early 1980s, to increased use of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) at present. The majority of the neonatal MRI studies have focused on lesions in the white matter, especially the more subtle lesions, which can now be clearly visualized; this was not so easy, and certainly more subjective, when imaging was restricted to cranial ultrasound. With better ultrasound equipment and more detailed examinations, using more acoustic windows than the anterior fontanel, for example the mastoid window and the posterior fontanel, hemorrhagic lesions of the cerebellum have increasingly been recognized, especially in the very immature and extremely low-birthweight infant. Germinal matrix hemorrhage–intraventricular hemorrhage (GMH–IVH) is still common, and especially the severe hemorrhages can lead to adverse neurologic sequelae.
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- Fetal and Neonatal Brain Injury , pp. 285 - 295Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2009