%0 Journal Article %1 Piovesana2001 %A Piovesana, A. M. %A Moura-Ribeiro, M. V. %A Vd, Zanardi %A Gon?alves, V. M. %D 2001 %J Arq Neuropsiquiatr %K Cerebral Palsy; Child; Child, Preschool; Female; Humans; Magnetic Resonance Imaging; Paresis; Pregnancy; Prenatal Diagnosis; Regression Analysis; Risk Factors; Tomography, X-Ray Computed %N 1 %P 29--34 %T Hemiparetic cerebral palsy: etiological risk factors and neuroimaging. %V 59 %X The purpose of this paper, which was conducted on 175 children with hemiparetic cerebral palsy (H-CP), was to verify the etiological risk period for this disease. Etiological risk factors (ERF) were detected through anamnesis: 23\% in the prenatal period, 18\% in the perinatal period and 59\% of the patients the period was undefined (ERF in the prenatal and perinatal period was 41\% and no ERF was 18\% of the cases. The computerized tomographic scan (CT) and MRI were performed on all the patients, who were then classified according to their etiopathogenic data: CT1= normal (18\%); CT 2= unilateral ventricular enlargement (25\%); CT 3= cortical/ subcortical cavities (28\%); CT4= hemispheric atrophy and other findings (14\%); CT 5= malformations (15\%). CT 5 was associated with physical malformations beyond the central nervous system and with prenatal ERF's, while CT 2 was associated with the perinatal ERF's, mainly in premature births. Magnetic resonance imaging was performed on 57 patients and demonstrated a good degree of concordance with the CT. Etiology remained undefined in only 37\% of the cases after neuroimaging was related to ERF. A high perinatal RF frequency (59\%) was observed and emphasized the need for special care during this period.

@article{Piovesana2001, abstract = {The purpose of this paper, which was conducted on 175 children with hemiparetic cerebral palsy (H-CP), was to verify the etiological risk period for this disease. Etiological risk factors (ERF) were detected through anamnesis: 23\% in the prenatal period, 18\% in the perinatal period and 59\% of the patients the period was undefined (ERF in the prenatal and perinatal period was 41\% and no ERF was 18\% of the cases. The computerized tomographic scan (CT) and MRI were performed on all the patients, who were then classified according to their etiopathogenic data: CT1= normal (18\%); CT 2= unilateral ventricular enlargement (25\%); CT 3= cortical/ subcortical cavities (28\%); CT4= hemispheric atrophy and other findings (14\%); CT 5= malformations (15\%). CT 5 was associated with physical malformations beyond the central nervous system and with prenatal ERF's, while CT 2 was associated with the perinatal ERF's, mainly in premature births. Magnetic resonance imaging was performed on 57 patients and demonstrated a good degree of concordance with the CT. Etiology remained undefined in only 37\% of the cases after neuroimaging was related to ERF. A high perinatal RF frequency (59\%) was observed and emphasized the need for special care during this period.}, added-at = {2014-07-19T21:03:08.000+0200}, author = {Piovesana, A. M. and Moura-Ribeiro, M. V. and Vd, Zanardi and Gon?alves, V. M.}, biburl = {https://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/20abe35ffc51eb3c35b36b47be786caac/ar0berts}, groups = {public}, interhash = {bb7a8b1ec4187063b5a76f3f971be0ac}, intrahash = {0abe35ffc51eb3c35b36b47be786caac}, journal = {Arq Neuropsiquiatr}, keywords = {Cerebral Palsy; Child; Child, Preschool; Female; Humans; Magnetic Resonance Imaging; Paresis; Pregnancy; Prenatal Diagnosis; Regression Analysis; Risk Factors; Tomography, X-Ray Computed}, month = Mar, number = 1, pages = {29--34}, pii = {S0004-282X2001000100007}, pmid = {11299427}, timestamp = {2014-07-19T21:03:08.000+0200}, title = {Hemiparetic cerebral palsy: etiological risk factors and neuroimaging.}, username = {ar0berts}, volume = 59, year = 2001 }