Constance Burgod, Munirah Mazlan, Stuti Pant, Vaisakh Krishnan, Reema Garegrat, Paolo Montaldo, Pallavi Muraleedharan, Prathik Bandiya, Chinnathambi N Kamalaratnam, Rema Chandramohan, Swati Manerkar, Ismat Jahan, Sadeka C Moni, Mohammod Shahidullah, Ranmali Rodrigo, Samanmali Sumanasena, Radhika Sujatha, Babu Peter Sathyanathan, Anagha R Joshi, Ronit R Pressler, Paul Bassett, Seetha Shankaran, Sudhin Thayyil
BACKGROUND: Effect of duration of birth depression on neurodevelopmental outcomes in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) is not known. We examined the association of birth depression with brain injury, neurodevelopmental outcomes, and hypothermia after hypoxic ischemic encephalopathy (HIE) in south Asia. METHODS: We compared cerebral magnetic resonance (MR) at 2 weeks, and adverse outcomes (death or moderate or severe disability) at 18 months in 408 babies with moderate or severe HIE who had long birth depression (positive pressure ventilation (PPV) >10 min or Apgar score<6 at 10 min or cord pH < 7...
January 2024: Lancet Reg Health Southeast Asia