Birth Asphyxia and the Brain: Basic Science and Clinical Implications

Harvey B. Sarnat.

Part I. History and Epidemiology.

Chapter 1. Cerebral Palsy and Its Causes: Historical Perspectives.

Tonse N.K. Raju.

Chapter 2. The Relationship of Birth Asphyxia to Later Motor Disability.

Michael P. Collins, Nigel S. Paneth.

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Part II. Basic Science.

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Chapter 3. The Biochemical Neurotoxic Cascade in Hypoxic-Ischemic Injury.

Michael V. Johnston, Akira Ishida, Wako Nakajima, William Trescher.

Chapter 4. Inflammation and Neonatal Brain Injury.

John D.E. Barks, Faye S. Silverstein.

Chapter 5. Glucose, Acidosis, and the Developing Brain.

Robert C. Vannucci, Susan J. Vannucci.

Chapter 6. Energy Consequences of Cerebral Hypoxia-Ischemia.

John S. Wyatt.

Chapter 7. Apoptosis and Necrosis in Perinatal Brain Injury.

Huseyin Mehmet, A. David Edwards.

Chapter 8. Effects of Nitric Oxide on Neuronal and Cerebrovascular Function.

Donna M. Ferriero, Stephen Ashwal.

Chapter 9. Free Radical-Mediated Processes.

Ola Didrik Saugstad.

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Part III. Clinical Implications.

Chapter 10. Antepartum Hypoxemia and the Developing Fetus.

Donald M. Peebles, Mark A. Hanson.

Chapter 11. Intrapartum Hypoxic-Ischemic Brain Injury.

Jenny A. Westgate, Laura Bennet, Alistair J. Gunn.

Chapter 12. Clinical Management of the Asphyxiated Newborn.

Malcolm Levene, Sunil K. Sinha.

Chapter 13. Neuroimaging of Hypoxic-Ischemic Encephalopathy.

Mary Rutherford.

Chapter 14. Thermal Influence on the Asphyxiated Newborn.

Marianne Thoresen.

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Part IV Medico-Legal Aspects.

Chapter 15. Medico-Legal Implications of Hypoxic-Ischemic Brain Injury.

Steven M. Donn, Malcolm L. Chiswick, Paula Whittell, Susan Anderson.