MRI in Hypoxic-Ischemic Encephalopathy

Abstract

Researchers at University of Melbourne, Australia, and St Louis Children’s Hospital, US investigated the effects of hypothermia treatment on MRI patterns of brain injury in newborns with hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy (HIE) and the prognostic utility of MRI for death or disability at age 2 years.

Keywords

• hypothermia treatment
• basal ganglia
• thalami