This title is from an Abstract published in Pediatric Neurology in the September Issue.  "Etiologic Profile of Spastic Diplegia in Children" is a fancy way of saying what causes Spastic Diplegia.

Here’s what jumped out at me.

The top three diagnoses were hypoxic-ischemic perinatal asphyxia (33%), periventricular leukomalacia (15%), and central nervous system infections (11%).In premature children, the most common diagnoses were periventricular leukomalacia (33%), perinatal asphyxia (26%), and central nervous system infections (15%). In term-born children, the most frequent diagnoses were perinatal asphyxia (37%), metabolic disease (12%), and structural malformation or infection (9% each).

There is a higher risk of injury to a child if the child is born premature.  This is why one of the questions we need answered when investigating a medical malpractice action is "Was the child born premature"

You can see from the above results that the "cause" with the highest percentage in full term children is perinatal asphyxia.

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