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Fetal Neurological Damage

By Lori G. Cohen and Joshua L. Becker
February 25, 2005

Recent research suggests that attorneys evaluating claims involving newborn neurologic damage and cerebral palsy should also be looking at a new potential cause of such conditions. Some research suggests that physiological problems in certain mothers – and perhaps fetuses themselves — actually contribute to neonatal encephalopathy or cerebral palsy that previously would have been assumed to be the result of intrapartum asphyxia, infections, metabolic defects, developmental malformations, or some other cause.

While perinatal asphyxic events and other traditional causes certainly can cause cerebral palsy and other newborn neurologic damage, attorneys handling cases involving such conditions should be aware that new research shows these injuries are often the result of the mother's passing maternal coagulation disorders to the fetus.

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