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Severe Congenital Heart Defects and Cerebral Palsy
Garne, Ester; Goldsmith, Shona; Barisic, Ingeborg; Braz, Paula; Dakovic, Ivana; Gibson, Catherine; Hansen, Michele; Hoei-Hansen, Christina E.Objective: To report the prevalence of cerebral palsy (CP) in children with severe congenital heart defects (sCHD) and the outcome/severity of the CP. Methods: Population-based, data linkage study between CP and congenital anomaly registers in Europe and Australia. The EUROCAT definition of severe CHD (sCHD) was used. Linked data from 4 regions in Europe and 2 in Australia were included. All children born in th...
Congenital anomalies in children with postneonatally acquired cerebral palsy: a...
Goldsmith, Shona; McIntyre, Sarah; Scott, Heather; Himmelmann, Kate; Smithers‐Sheedy, Hayley; Andersen, Guro L.; Blair, Eve; Badawi, Nadia; Garne, EsterAim: To describe the major congenital anomalies present in children with postneonatally acquired cerebral palsy (CP), and to compare clinical outcomes and cause of postneonatally acquired CP between children with and without anomalies. Method: Data were linked between total population CP and congenital anomaly registers in five European and three Australian regions for children born 1991 to 2009 (n=468 children...