New Research Techniques?
The types of chronic prenatal brain injury that lead to cerebral palsy are often subtle and difficult to detect. A whole host of identified maternal risk factors exist, for example hypertension and smoking, but many cases of cerebral palsy are not correlated with these risk factors. The medical community remains frustrated in its attempts to either predict or to reduce the incidence of cerebral palsy in newborns. New research conducted by Dr. Frederick Kraus at the St. John’s Mercy Medical Center in St. Louis suggests a better alternative for predicting, and eventually preventing, some of the causes of cerebral palsy. In the July 1999 issue of Human Pathology, (Kraus, Frederick T., Acheen, Viviana l.) Dr. Kraus and his colleagues report findings from their study of perinatal autopsies. They found that a significant number of infants who had tiny blood clots called thrombi in the fetal vessels of the placenta, also had such clots in their developing organs. The study showed that within
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