Perinatal hypoxic myocardial injury in neonates diagnosed by echocardiography and electrocardiography – Perinatal asphyxia of the heart

Newborns' heart muscle poorly adaptates to hypoxic insult and severe or prolonged hypoxy causes insufficiency of compensating mechanisms and myocardial injury. Aim of the study was to evaluate cardiac function in the newborns after perinatal asphyxia using echocardiography (ECHO) and electrocardiography (ECG). Method: From enrolled 83 full term neonates we separated two groups: I (39 asphyxiated neonates) and II (44 non-asphyxiated neonates In all the newborns we performed ECG and ECHO between the 12th and 24th hour of life. We evaluated: shortening fraction of left ventricle (SF), cardiac output (CO), cardiac i…