Perinatal and infant autopsy

Perinatal autopsy, techniques, and classifications

The value of the perinatal autopsy The perinatal autopsy can provide important information to the family, the clinician, and society [1–3]. When the parents give their consent for a post mortem examination on their baby, they are hoping to know why and how their baby died. It is quite reassuring to the parents to know that whatever has gone wrong, it did not happen because they did something wr...

Perinatal autopsy--a six year study.

Manuscript received: July 28, 1997; Initial review completed: September 23, 1997; Revision accepted: January 1, 1998 correction of antemortem diagnoses; reassurance of family members when the specific cause of death becomes certain; and discovery of hereditary disorders, allowing genetic counselling and prophylaxis. It may help pediatricians to reduce perinatal mortality in future cases. The pr...

Postmortem CT and Autopsy in Perinatal Intracranial Hemorrhage

To improve interpretation of intracranial computed tomographic findings in vivo, postmortem computed tomography was correlated directly with autopsy findings in 105 specimens of human stillborn and live-birth infants, ranging in age from gestational week 13 to postnatal month 18. This study identifies the typical computed tomographic appearance of intradural and other hemorrhages, attempts to c...

Infant and perinatal mortality in Scotland.

Perinatal mortality and one-year infant morbidity.

Perinatal mortality in Southampton and South-west Hampshire Health District fell from 20.8 per 1000 total births in 1970 to 11.3 per 1000 in 1976. This was atributable mainly to a fall in the stillbirth rate, but also to a recent fall in the neonatal death rate in the first week. All infants born in 1975 who had any problems in the perinatal period were followed up for one year. Of the 12 child...