Antepartum Causes of Encephalopathy

Abstract

Adverse factors in the family and maternal history, pregnancy, and birth related to the occurrence of neonatal encephalopathy (NE) in full term newborn infants were evaluated in a matched case-control study at the Institute for Child Health Research, West Perth, and the Department of Neonatology, Princess Margaret Hospital for Children, Subiacco, Western Australia.

Keywords

• neonatal encephalopathy
• maternal history
• anticonvulsants