Maternal factors contributing to asphyxia neonatorum

Asphyxia Neonatorum.

I have presented the material in three sections, the first concerns the antenatal events leading to foetal anoxia, the second deals with the management of labour, and the third discusses methods of treatment which may be applicable in domiciliary midwifery. I have quoted fairly extensively from the National Perinatal Mortality Survey (1961) carried out in 1958 under the auspices of the National...

Asphyxia Neonatorum

Asphyxia neonatorum due to a nasopharyngeal teratoma.

Although a nasopharyngeal teratoma occurs but rarely, it may be a cause of acute asphyxia in the newborn baby. The tumour is often readily amenable to surgical removal. Ehrich (1945) gives a comprehensive survey of the literature relating to teratoid parasites of the mouth. He refers to the earlier publications of Ahlfeld (1875), Arnold (1888) and Schwalbe (1907) and discusses their theories re...

Hepatic profile in asphyxia neonatorum.

Perinatal asphyxia is one of the leading causes of neonatal mortality in India. In addition to hypoxic-ischemic brain injury and neurological deficits, there is evidence of multi-system insult (l). Hepatic dysfunction is caused by redistributing cardiac output away from nonvital viscera to the heart, brain and adrenal glands (2). The present study was carried out to determine the extent of live...

Human recombinant erythropoietin in asphyxia neonatorum: pilot trial.

OBJECTIVE The goal was to examine biochemical, neurophysiologic, anatomic, and clinical changes associated with erythropoietin administration to neonates with hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy (HIE). METHODS We conducted a prospective case-control study with 45 neonates in 3 groups, a normal healthy group (N = 15), a HIE-erythropoietin group (N = 15; infants with mild/moderate HIE who received ...