Early Prediction of Hypoxic-Ischemic Brain Injury by a New Panel of Biomarkers in a Population of Term Newborns

Table 1

Scoring system for brain injury seen on MRI scans.

Score	Description
Basal ganglia and thalamus
0	Normal
1	Abnormal signal in the thalamus
2	Abnormal signal in the thalamus and lentiform nucleus
3	Abnormal signal in the thalamus, lentiform nucleus, and perirolandic cortex
4	More extensive involvement
Watershed areas
0	Normal
1	Single focal infarction
2	Abnormal signal in the anterior or posterior watershed white matter
3	Abnormal signal in the anterior or posterior watershed cortex and white matter
4	Abnormal signal in both anterior and posterior watershed zones
5	More extensive cortical involvement
Posterior limb of the internal capsule
0	Myelination present
1	Myelination present but impaired
2	Myelination absent