Prospective Study on the Importance of Colour Doppler Neuro Sonography in Assessing Short-Term Prognosis among Full-Term Neonates with Perinatal Asphyxia

Abstract

The aim of the study was to determine the role of blood flow parameters evaluated by colour Doppler ultrasonography in neonates with birth asphyxia and correlate it with the short-term prognostic outcome - mortality. The present study which included 115 neonates confirms a role for cranial Doppler measurements like resistive index (RI), pulsatality index (PI), peak systolic blood flow velocity (PSFV) and end-diastolic blood flow velocity (EDFV), in conjunction with other clinical information, as a safe and cost-efficient method for prognostication of outcome in neonatal hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy (HIE).