In small for gestational age newborn infants of toxemic mothers bioelectric brain
maturation is frequently retarded and/or abnormal. The consistent abnormal EEG phenomena
could — if at all — only exceptionally be explained by perinatal hypoxia or postnatal
hypoglycemia and they occurred in the absence of any other overt postnatal illness.
The results suggest that central nervous system maturation does not proceed independently
of the nutritional status of the fetus.
Newborn infants - small for dates infants - toxemia - hypoglycemia electroencephalogram
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