Perinatal CNS injury

Perinatal CNS lesion, registered in newborns, is a group of disorders that occur in the central nervous system from 28 weeks of pregnancy to 7 days of life of the baby.

The main symptoms of such a group of violations are usually:

Let's take a closer look at what is the perinatal CNS lesion in children, what varieties distinguish it.

On which groups is the perinatal lesion of the central nervous system divided?

By its origin, all perinatal lesions of the central nervous system can be divided into:

  1. Perinatal CNS damage of hypoxic-ischemic origin (hypoxic-ischemic lesion). As a rule, it occurs because of a lack of oxygen in the fetus or its utilization during pregnancy or childbirth.
  2. Traumatic lesion of the CNS - due to traumatic damage to the head of the fetus at the time of delivery.
  3. Hypoxic-traumatic lesion of the central nervous system - characterized by a combination of both hypoxia and damage to the cervical spine, as well as the spinal cord located in it.
  4. Hypoxic-hemorrhagic damage occurs during birth trauma and is accompanied by disorders of cerebral circulation, up to hemorrhages.

Also, it is necessary to single out such a violation as transient perinatal CNS lesion, which is manifested mainly in disturbance of the musculoskeletal system. Transient it is called because often enough its symptoms alone, completely disappear within 2-3 months from the moment of birth. However, this does not mean that such a violation does not require monitoring by doctors.

How are perinatal CNS treated?

The ways of rehabilitation of children with perinatal lesions of the central nervous system today are quite diverse. Here everything depends, first of all, on the type of pathology and its clinical manifestations.

Treatment of the acute period of perinatal CNS lesions, as a rule, is carried out in a hospital. It includes:

What are the consequences of CNS damage in newborns?

The main variants of the effects of perinatal CNS injury in young children are as follows: