Oxidative stress in perinatal asphyxia and hypoxic-ischaemic encephalopathy

• Main Authors: Antonio Nuñez (Author), Isabel Benavente (Author), Dorotea Blanco (Author), Héctor Boix (Author), Fernando Cabañas (Author), Mercedes Chaffanel (Author), Belén Fernández-Colomer (Author), José Ramón Fernández-Lorenzo (Author), Begoña Loureiro (Author), María Teresa Moral (Author), Antonio Pavón (Author), Inés Tofé (Author), Eva Valverde (Author), Máximo Vento (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Elsevier, 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Birth asphyxia is one of the principal causes of early neonatal death. In survivors it may evolve to hypoxic-ischaemic encephalopathy and major long-term neurological morbidity. Prolonged and intense asphyxia will lead to energy exhaustion in tissues exclusively dependent on aerobic metabolism, such...