Does asphyxia cause cerebral palsy?

Cerebral Palsy and Electronic Fetal Monitoring: Rearranging The Titanic’s Deck Chairs

“…It does not matter either that fifty years of CP-EFM research has repeatedly proven asphyxia to be a cause of only a tiny fraction of CP cases, while the same research identified a multiplicity of antenatal-post-natal causative factors, a number of which are silent and impossible to recognize until years later [1-11, 21, 39, 56, 59-63] in addition to the most recent genetic studies revealing the large number of plausible mutations, de novo and inherited, contributing to cerebral palsy causation [10,64,65]. The public, trial lawyers, and a surprising number of physicians, including obstetricians, still believe the oxygen-deprivation-is-the-sole-cause-of-perinatalbrain-damage and CP myth [47][48][49][66][67][68][69][70][71].…”

Cerebral Palsy-an update

“…The etiologies can be classified according to the timing of the insult as prenatal (commonest), natal, or postnatal 7 . Risk factors for CP are multifactorial and can include preterm birth, multiple gestation, intrauterine growth restriction, male sex, low Apgar scores, intrauterine infections, maternal thyroid abnormalities, prenatal strokes, birth asphyxia, maternal methyl mercury exposure, and maternal iodine deficiency 8 .…”

The Antenatal Causes of Cerebral Palsy – Genetic and Viral Associations

“…26 However, the fetus with established brain dysfunction or susceptibility factors may sometimes experience secondary hypoxia at birth, ie acute on chronic brain injury. In retrospect no definitive cause can be identified in more than 75% of cases of cerebral palsy, 27 and data indicate that most children diagnosed with cerebral palsy did not have primary intrapartum asphyxia.…”