Title: Fetal and neonatal brain injury : mechanisms, management, and the risks of practice /
Authors: Stevenson, David K. 1949-; Sunshine, Philip, 1930-
Publisher: Oxford University Press,
Year: 1997
Subjects: Child; Fetal Diseases; Brain Diseases; Brain Injuries; Brain Diseases; Brain-damaged children; Brain Wounds and injuries; Fetus Diseases; Fetal brain Growth.; Newborn infants Diseases; Newborn infants Wounds and injuries; Infant, Newborn, Diseases; Infant, Newborn
Contents: I. Possible causes of acquired fetal and neonatal brain injury. 1. Epidemiology of perinatal asphyxia / Philip Sunshine. 2. Mechanisms of ischemic cell injury / Rona G. Giffard and Marios C. Papadopoulos. 3. Ischemia-reperfusion injury / Charles Palmer. 4. Experimental models of perinatal brain injury / Alistair J. Gunn, Harmen H. de Haan and Peter D. Gluckman. 5. Fetal responses to asphyxia / R. Harold Holbrook, Jr., Ronald N. Gibson and Yasser Y. El-Sayed [and others]. 6. Prematurity and complications of labor and delivery / Maurice L. Druzin. 7. Endogenous neuroprotective mechanisms -- their implications for therapeutic intervention / Chris E. Williams, Maggie Lai and Peter D. Gluckman. 8. Intrauterine growth retardation / Alistair G.S. Philip and Philip Sunshine. 9. Congenital malformations of the brain / Ronald J. Lemire. 10. Hemorrhagic lesions of the central nervous system / Seetha Shankaran -- II. Environmental causes of acquired fetal and neonatal brain injury.