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Posted By Debbie King on September 28, 1997 at 23:11:10:









I posted this in the med forum and they suggested I post it here as they were stumped.  I would appreciate any help:

Could someone plese tell me what hypoxic ischemic encephalopathy is. We have a 4 month old little boy who has a diagnosis of that. He also has diabetic cardiomyopathy. He is a little boy we are adopting and he was born 1 month early with respiratory failure, profound hypoglycemia, and hypotension. He also has a heart murmur. His birth mother had maternal gestational diabetes, methamphetimine use and was a heavy smoker. She also had no prenatal care. Our baby did go thorugh methamphetamin withdrawal after birth.
I am giving all this history because I thought it might be helpful in answering my question. We received some paper work today that had the above diagnosis on it and had never heard of that before. If anyone can help I would be very grateful.
Thanks