[Clinical and computerized-tomographic correlations in children with cerebral palsy]. / Klinicheskie i komp'iuterno-tomograficheskie korreliatsii pri detskikh tserebral'nykh paralichakh.

Clinical investigation and computed tomography (CT) were performed in 75 children with the infantile cerebral paralysis (ICP). In 63% pathomorphologic changes were found, their rate dependent on ICP form and severity of the motor deficiency. Most frequent finding was ventricular system dilatation which was asymmetrical in majority of patients. Uniform CT changes--frontal atrophy--were found in patients with atonic-astatic form of ICP.

[Function of the sympathetico-adrenal system and the acid-base equilibrium in newborn infants with a hypoxic lesion of the central nervous system]. / Sostoianie simpatiko-adrenalovoi sistemy i kislotno-shchelochnogo ravnovesiia u novorozhdennykh s gipoksicheskim porazheniem tsentral'ni nervnoi sistemy.

The function of the sympathetic-adrenal system was studied by measuring umbilical cord blood catecholamines in 31 full-term newborns with perinatal asphyxia and evidence of hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy (HIE) and in 20 normal newborns. The results indicate that the full-term newborn responds to asphyxia with graded catecholamine release. The epinephrine concentration in newborns with moderate HIE is lower than in newborns with mild HIE, which may reflect decreased sympathetic-adrenal function due to prolonged asphyxia. Acid-base values in capillary blood and lumbar cerebrospinal fluid were determined in the babies with HIE, with the findings pointing to metabolic acidosis which was more expressed in cerebrospinal fluid.