New Perspectives on an Old Problem

Gluckman PD Williams CE . When and why do brain cells die? Developmental Medicine & Child Neurology 1992; 34: 1010–1014

Sarnat HB Sarnat MS . Neonatal encephalopathy following fetal distress. A clinical and electroencephalographic study. Archives of Neurology 1976; 33: 696–705

Levene MI Grindulis H Sands C Moore JR . Comparison of two methods of predicting outcome in perinatal asphyxia. Lancet 1986; i: 67–69

Wyatt JS Edwards AD Azzopardi D Reynolds EOR . Magnetic resonance and near infrared spectroscopy for the investigation of perinatal hypoxic-ischaemic brain injury. Archives of Diseases of Childhood 1989; 64: 953–963

Azzopardi D Wyatt JS Cady EB . Prognosis of newborn infants with hypoxic-ischaemic brain injury assessed by phosphorus magnetic resonance spectroscopy. Pediatric Research 1989; 25: 445–451

Roth SC Edwards AD Cady EB . Relation between cerebral oxidative metabolism following birth asphyxia and neurodevelopmental outcome at one year. Developmental Medicine & Child Neurology 1992; 34: 285–295

Groenendaal F Veenhoven RH van der Grond J Jansen GH Witkamp TD de Vries LS . Cerebral lactate and N-acetyl aspartate/choline ratios in asphyxiated full-term neonates demonstrated in vivo using proton magnetic resonance spectroscopy. Pediatric Research 1994; 35: 148–151

Peden CJ Rutherford MA Sargentoni J Cox IJ Bryant DJ Dubowitz LM . Proton spectroscopy of the neonatal brain following hypoxic-ischaemic injury. Developmental Medicine & Child Neurology 1993; 35: 502–510

Lorek A Takei Y Cady EB . Delayed cerebral energy failure following acute hypoxia-ischaemia in the newborn piglet: Continuous 48-hour studies by phosphorus magnetic resonance spectroscopy. Pediatric Research 1994; 36: 699–706

Mehmet H Yue X Squier MV . Increased apoptosis in the cingulate sulcus of newborn piglets following transient hypoxia-ischaemia is related to the degree of high energy phosphate depletion during the insult. Neuroscience Letters 1994; 181: 121–125

Wyatt JS . Near infrared spectroscopy: Investigation of perinatal brain injury. Biology of the Neonate 1992; 62: 290–294

Edwards AD Wyatt JS Richardson EC Delpy DT Cope M Reynolds EOR . Cotside measurement of cerebral blood flow in ill newborn infants by near infrared spectroscopy. Lancet 1988; ii: 701–702

Wyatt JS Cope M Delpy DT Richardson CE Edwards AD Wray S Reynolds EOR . Quantitation of cerebral blood volume in newborn human infants by near infrared spectroscopy. Journal of Applied Physiology 1990; 68: 1086–1091

Wyatt JS . Near infrared spectroscopy in asphyxial brain injury. Clinics in Perinatology 1993; 20: 369–378

Peebles DM Wyatt JS . Near infrared spectroscopy and intrapartum fetal monitoring. Contemporary Reviews in Obstetrics & Gynaecology 1993; 5: 124–129

Peebles DM Edwards AD Wyatt JS Bishop AP Cope M Delpy DT Reynolds EOR . Changes in human fetal cerebral hemoglobin concentration and oxygenation during labor measured by near infrared spectroscopy. American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology 1992; 166: 1369–1373

Aldrich CA D'Antona D Spencer JAD Wyatt JS . Near infrared spectroscopy used in the assessment of intrapartum fetal cerebral oxygenation. Contemporary Reviews in Obstetrics & Gynaecology 1995; 7: 71–76

Aldrich CJ D'Antona D Wyatt JS Spencer JAD Peebles DM Reynolds EOR . Fetal cerebral oxygenation measured by near infrared spectroscopy shortly before birth and acid-base status at birth. Obstetrics & Gynecology 1994; 84: 861–866

Aldrich CJ D'Antona D Spencer JAD Wyatt JS Peebles DM Delpy DT Reynolds EOR . Late fetal heart rate decelerations and changes in cerebral oxygenation measured by near infrared spectroscopy during the first stage of labour. British Journal of Obstetrics & Gynaecology 1995; 102: 9–13