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KA40.01 category

Cerebral haemorrhage due to birth injury

Definition

Cerebral haemorrhage due to birth injury refers to haemorrhage occurring within the ventricles, germinal matrix, choroid plexus or the cerebral parenchyma as a result of birth trauma, and is commonly accompanied by extracerebral contusion and/or bleeding haemorrhage in the scalp. Skull fracture(s) are often associated. Birth trauma may produce either direct laceration and contusion of tissue or distortion of the vascular plexus resulting in hemorrhagic infarction. A common clinical presentation includes seizures, changing levels on consciousness or a combination of both.

Also indexed as

Cerebral haemorrhage due to birth injuryCerebral laceration during birth, with haemorrhagebrain haemorrhage in fetus or newborn due to birth injurybrain laceration due to birth injurycerebral haemorrhage due to birth traumacerebral haemorrhage in fetus or newborn due to birth injuryintracerebral haemorrhage in fetus or newborn due to birth injurylaceration of brain during birth, with haemorrhage

Nearby in Intracranial laceration or haemorrhage due to birth injury