Table 2.
Aetiology of disabilities
n | % | |
Congenital diseases | ||
Miller Dieker Syndrome / lissencephaly | 7 | |
corpus callosum agenesis | 5 | |
Cornelia de Lange syndrome | 2 | |
Walker-Warburg syndrome | 2 | |
unspecified abnormal brain development | 16 | |
other non progressive syndromes | 6 | |
other chromosomal abnormalities | 9 | |
Rett syndrome | 3 | |
Alpers syndrome | 4 | |
Aicardi-Goutieres syndrome | 2 | |
other progressive syndromes | 5 | |
other congenital diseases | 4 | |
65 | 33.5 | |
Pre and perinatal complications | ||
perinatal asphyxia | 18 | |
cerebral palsy e.c.i. | 13 | |
cerebral haemorrhage | 6 | |
intra uterine CMV infection | 5 | |
other infections | 4 | |
other causes | 7 | |
53 | 27.3 | |
Acquired | ||
meningitis / encephalitis | 5 | |
Trauma | 3 | |
near drowning accident | 2 | |
Other | 2 | |
12 | 6.2 | |
Combinations of causes | ||
congenital and acquired disease | 6 | |
congenital disease and perinatal complications | 5 | |
perinatal and acquired | 3 | |
perinatal and hereditary progressive | 1 | |
15 | 7.7 | |
Unknown cause | ||
25 | 12.8 | |
Missing | ||
24 | 12.3 | |
Total 194 children |