Strokes and Cerebral Palsy

Blood coagulation disorders in infants and mothers can produce a stroke in the fetus or newborn baby. A neonatal stroke simply means that the brain's blood supply has been disrupted, which can quickly lead to the development of cerebral palsy. This stroke can be caused by several different things, such as broken or clogged blood vessels in the brain, or even abnormal blood cells.

Although most people associate strokes with older adults, they frequently occur in babies around the time of birth, damaging brain tissue and causing neurological problems. Ongoing research is being done which studies potential treatments that may one day help prevent stroke in fetuses and newborns.

• Maternal and infant characteristics associated with perinatal arterial stroke in the infant.
• Role of thrombophilic risk factors in children with non-stroke cerebral palsy.
• Stroke in newborn infants.
• Fetal stroke.
• Perinatal stroke in term infants with neonatal encephalopathy.
• Selective posterior rhizotomy for painful spasticity in the lower limbs of hemiplegic patients after stroke: report of two cases.
• Perinatal stroke in children with motor impairment: a population-based study.
• Hyperbaric oxygen therapy for brain injury, cerebral palsy, and stroke.
• Elevation of CRABP-I in the cerebrospinal fluid of patients with Moyamoya disease.
• EEG and ischemic stroke in full-term newborns.
• Running around in circles following ischemic stroke.
• Low-load coordination dynamics in athletes, physiotherapists, gymnasts, musicians and patients with spinal cord injury, after stroke, traumatic brain lesion and with cerebral palsy.
• Cerebral Palsy site with various information.
• New developments in stroke rehabilitation based on behavioral and neuroscientific principles: constraint-induced therapy.
• Can we prevent cerebral palsy?
• Long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acids and neurological developmental outcome at 18 months in healthy term infants.
• Perinatal risk factors of adverse outcome in very preterm children: a role of initial treatment of respiratory insufficiency?
• Prevalence of epilepsy in adults with mental retardation and related disabilities in primary care.
• Evidence of cerebral reorganization following perinatal stroke demonstrated with fMRI and DTI tractography.
• Early hypocarbia of preterm infants: its relationship to periventricular leukomalacia and cerebral palsy, and its perinatal risk factors.
• Epilepsy in children with cerebral palsy.
• Neonatal cerebral white matter injury in preterm infants is associated with culture positive infections and only rarely with metabolic acidosis.
• Erythropoietin improves functional and histological outcome in neonatal stroke.