Pediatric Infectious Diseases: Open Access

Etiologies and Risk Factors of Cerebral Palsy in 92 Children (Beni-Mellal, Morroco)

Our sample consists of 144 people with 92 cases of palsy cerebral, (79 cases aged 3 to 18 years, 13 cases aged 19 and over). The etiology of disabilities was evaluated based on a structured questionnaire, the processing and analysis of data made by the software sphinx 2 plus. The perinatal etiologies were dominated by hypoxia in 6.3% cases, postnatal etiologies were dominated by neonatal infections such as meningitis and the hyperthermia of unknown origin in 9.7% cases, convulsions 4.2% cases, and jaundice 2.8% cases, prenatal etiologies were dominated by the low weight at birth 16.7% cases, prematurity 2.8% cases, multiple pregnancies 2.1% cases these are causes of low weight of the new born.

Author(s):

Sanae Batoui, Habbari K and Hassnaoui M

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