Advances in Neonatal Encephalopathy
A special issue of Children (ISSN 2227-9067). This special issue belongs to the section "Child Neurology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 1 December 2024 | Viewed by 9245
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Neonatal encephalopathy represents a challenge for the clinician and neonatologist, and it often presents in neonatal age with seizures at birth or within the neonatal age, often not responding to conventional anticonvulsant treatment.
The challenge consists in the definition and differential diagnosis of neonatal encephalopathy and neonatal seizures, as etiologies can be different and multifactorial, including hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy (HIE, in 28–50% of cases), intracranial hemorrhage (11-26%), ischemic stroke (18%), metabolic derangement (16-19%), congenital brain malformations (1.2–10%), and inborn errors of metabolism (IEM, about 3%).
Recent literature has focused on timely diagnosis and treatment of neonatal encephalopathy, in view of the prevention or improvement of important long-term neurologic consequences that are often poor in these patients. Thus, in the era of precision medicine, the aim should be a prompt diagnosis of etiology of neonatal encephalopathy and an early treatment of signs, symptoms, and subtending etiologic condition, in order to reduce long-term neurologic sequelae.
The aim of the present Special Issue is to focus on recent advances in diagnosis and treatment of neonatal encephalopathy, in order to spread the knowledge of the condition and to improve prompt recognition of the disease and prevention strategies.
Prof. Dr. Agnese Suppiej
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- neonatal encephalopathy
- advances in diagnosis of neonatal encephalopathy
- advances in treatment of neonatal encephalopathy
- evaluation of short- and long-term outcome of neonatal encephalopathy
- strategies of prevention