Formal training in general movement assessment is required to effectively evaluate infants with perinatal asphyxia in outpatient settings.

Aim: General movement assessment (GMA) can help to identify children with a high risk of developing neurological dysfunction, such as cerebral palsy, and certified training is provided in this specialism. The aim of this study was to investigate the feasibility and reliability of using video recordings to assess GMA, in a busy Danish outpatient clinic.

Methods: The study comprised 30-term infants born with perinatal asphyxia, who were video recorded at three months.

[Induced hypothermia in infants born with hypoxic-ischaemic encephalopathy].

Introduction: Randomised studies have demonstrated the efficacy of hypothermia for the treatment of perinatal hypoxic-ischaemic encephalopathy (HIE) in term or late preterm infants. In August 2006, the Neonatology Department at Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen, introduced total body cooling for infants born at term with HIE.

Material And Methods: This retrospective study comprises data from medical records of newborn children born with HIE during a period of 32 months.

Red blood cell antibodies in pregnancy and their clinical consequences: synergistic effects of multiple specificities.

Background: The objective was to determine clinical consequences of various specificities for the infant/fetus. The population was patients referred between 1998 and 2005 to the tertiary center because of detected red blood cell (RBC) alloimmunization. Altogether 455 infants were delivered by 390 alloimmunized women.

[Omphalitis with fatal outcome in new-born baby boy].

Omphalitis is a serious condition with important morbidity and mortality, especially in developing countries. The most commonly involved micro-organisms are Staphylococcus aureus, Escherichia coli, Klebsiella pneumoniae and Pseudomonas aeruginosa. We describe a Danish patient with cellulitis, severe septicaemia, and portal vein thrombosis as fatal complications of omphalitis.

[Vein of Galen aneurysm diagnosed in the perinatal period. A retrospective assessment].

Introduction: A vein of Galen aneurysm (VGA) is a rare, congenital, intracranial vascular malformation often diagnosed in the perinatal period. In recent years there have been international reportings of good results after endovascular embolization during the first year of life.

Materials And Methods: In this paper the clinical course of 10 children born in Denmark with perinatal presentation of VGA is reviewed.