Fetal & Neonatal Brain Injury: Mechanisms, Management and the Risks of Practice

This book evaluates the numerous events in pregnancy, labor, and post-partum care that can lead to brain damage in newborn infants. The mechanisms by which the brain is damaged, as well as the approaches to treatment and most importantly, prevention of injury are detailed. Sixteen new chapters have been added to the Second Edition, and all the others have been fully updated. New chapters cover subjects such as ischemic cell injury, reperfusion injury, experimental models of perinatal brain injury, hypoxemic-ischemic encephalopathy, congenital malformations of the brain, perinatal infections, and metabolic disorders in the developing CNS. A chapter devoted exclusively to hemorrhagic lesions of the brain has been added as well. The new edition incorporates the most recent advances in neurology, neurosurgery, and neuroimaging, including the rapidly improving imaging techniques for identifying the extent of brain injury, the better ante- and post-partum management of infants, and the development of better understanding of the cellular mechanism of injuries to the brain.