A Review on Recent Advances of Cerebral Palsy

Table 2

Etiologies of cerebral palsy [2, 8, 11–13, 15].

Prenatal	Perinatal	Postnatal
Infection and fever during pregnancy	Obstructed labor	Hypoglycemia
Metabolic disorders	Cord prolapses	Jaundice
Intrauterine infection	Antepartum hemorrhage	Neonatal meningitis
Chorioamnionitis	Metabolic acidosis	Septicemia
Maternal ingestion of toxins	Use of assisted reproductive technology	Malaria
Preeclampsia	Intrapartum hypoxia	Malaria with seizures
Maternal trauma in pregnancy		Malaria with coma
Exposure to methylmercury; Genetic syndromes; Multiple pregnancies		Meningitis
IUGR		Tuberculosis
Fetal growth restriction		Sickle cell disease
Placenta abruption		HIV
Failure of closure of the neural tube		PVL
Schizencephaly		Congenital infections
Chromosomal defects		Asphyxia
Microcephaly		Hyperbilirubinemia
Rubella		Genetic causes
		Neonatal stroke