If your child's cerebral palsy was
caused by hypoxia during delivery, that fact might be reflected in low Apgar scores (delivery room measures of respiration, color, muscle tone, reflexes and heart rate) or a blood pH that is below 7.20.
Brain injury, heart attack, and strokes all have one thing in common: cell death
caused by hypoxia.
Scientists with the U.S. Geological Survey, the Illinois - Indiana Sea Grant and partners recently found that dead zones
caused by hypoxia, the depletion of oxygen in water, are unexpectedly variable in Lake Erie, sometimes disappearing and reemerging elsewhere in the matter of hours.
Not exact matches
It is important to note that another study from the research group (the PlanHab Project), looking at whole - body exercise, found that
hypoxia did in fact aggravate the impairment
caused by microgravity alone.
Fetal
hypoxia can be
caused by a variety of factors.
Hypoxia is
caused by excessive nutrient pollution, often from human activities such as agriculture that results in too little oxygen to support most marine life in bottom and near - bottom water.
In most cases,
hypoxia is
caused by either a dysfunction of the retinal vasculature, as in diabetic retinopathy and retinal artery and vein occlusions, or it is due to a mismatch between nutrient supply and demand, as in the case of a retinal detachment, where the retina is separated too far from the choroid to receive sufficient oxygen.
Hypoxia reverses brain damage
caused by mitochondrial dysfunction, HHMI team finds.
So, because it is
caused by either infection, trauma or toxins, it can
cause intense cell swelling and inflammation, respiratory poisoning,
hypoxia and metabolic collapse.
Brain damage due to lack of oxygen (
hypoxia)
caused by umbilical cord compression or strangulation.
Hypoxia and hypoxic - ischemic encephalopathy often occurs during childbirth due to various reasons, but the underlying
cause is often the direct result of medical malpractice or negligence
by the obstetrician (OB / GYN), nurse, midwife, doctor, or other medical professional.
Hypoxic brain injuries are
caused by lack of oxygen (
hypoxia) to the brain.
Brain injuries may also be
caused by near - drowning events in which the brain receives inadequate oxygen (
hypoxia), or
by carelessly violent actions such as shaking an infant (shaken baby syndrome).