Congenital abnormalities among children with cerebral palsy: more evidence for prenatal antecedents

LA Croen, JK Grether, CJ Curry, KB Nelson - The Journal of pediatrics, 2001 - Elsevier
… Objectives: To investigate the association between cerebral palsy (CP) and congenital
abnormalities among children with very low, low, and normal birth weight. Study design: A …

Prevalence and pathogenesis of congenital anomalies in cerebral palsy

POD Pharoah - Archives of Disease in Childhood-Fetal and Neonatal …, 2007 - fn.bmj.com
Background: It has been hypothesised that cerebral palsy (CP) and other congenital anomalies
are attributable to feto–fetal transfusion problems in a monochorionic multiple gestation. …

Classification of cerebral palsy: association between gender, age, motor type, topography and Gross Motor Function

LI Pfeifer, DBR Silva, CAR Funayama… - Arquivos de neuro …, 2009 - SciELO Brasil
… , as it is proposed by the European Surveillance of Cerebral Palsy 3 which classifies cerebral
palsy as ataxic, diskentic and spastic. Spastic cerebral palsy is subdivided in unilateral and …

High familial risks for cerebral palsy implicate partial heritable aetiology

K Hemminki, X Li, K Sundquist… - … perinatal epidemiology, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
cerebral palsy are very limited. We defined familial risks for siblings who were hospitalised
because of cerebral palsy … had no cerebral palsy. A total of 3997 patients were recorded with …

When can cerebral palsy be prevented? The generation of causal hypotheses by multivariate analysis of a case‐control study

E Blair, F Stanley - Paediatric and perinatal epidemiology, 1993 - Wiley Online Library
cerebral palsy were investigated in the Western Australian spastic cerebral palsy case-control
study by identifying associations … as a consequence of cerebral palsy. These factors were …

A systematic review of neuroimaging for cerebral palsy

SJ Korzeniewski, G Birbeck… - Journal of child …, 2008 - journals.sagepub.com
… % of cerebral palsy is attributable to brain malformations, and 17% of cerebral palsy cases
… of the abnormalities in brain development in cerebral palsy, they are less informative than …

Cerebral palsy: comprehensive review and update

MMS Jan - Annals of Saudi medicine, 2006 - annsaudimed.net
Cerebral palsy (CP) is a common pediatric disorder occurring in about 2 to 2.5 per 1000
live births. It is a chronic motor disorder resulting from a non-progressive (static) insult to the …

Prevalence of cerebral palsy in twins, triplets and quadruplets

Y Yokoyama, T Shimizu… - … Journal of Epidemiology, 1995 - academic.oup.com
… of cerebral palsy than singletons. This study investigated the degree of risk for cerebral palsy
in … The prevalence of cerebral palsy was 0.9% among 1410 twins, 3.1% among 287 triplets, …

Prevalence of cerebral palsy in Alberta

CMT Robertson, LW Svenson… - Canadian journal of …, 1998 - cambridge.org
… In addition to diagnostic considerations, epidemiological studies of cerebral palsy are
limited by the type of rate used, by variation in yearly case numbers, and in recent years, by …

Multimorbidity in middle-aged adults with cerebral palsy

N Cremer, EA Hurvitz, MD Peterson - The American journal of medicine, 2017 - Elsevier
… We hypothesized that adults with cerebral palsy with greater mobility restrictions would
have a high prevalence of multiple chronic diseases, such as diabetes, asthma, hypertension, …