UNC researchers published unexpected and surprising results from a study based on magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of newborn brains. Twenty-six percent of the newborns in the study were found to have asymptomatic subdural haemorrhages or bleeding in and around the brain. It was an unexpected finding because subdural haemorrhage had been considered unusual in full-term newborns. But the 2007 findings suggested that small, asymptomatic brain bleeds might be a fairly common consequence of a normal vaginal delivery.
Now 13 years later, John H. Gilmore, MD, professor and vice-chair of research in the UNC Department of Psychiatry and senior author of the 2007 study, and J. Keith Smith, MD, PhD, vice-chair of the UNC Department of Radiology, have published a follow-up study in the journal Radiology, which also published the 2007 study.
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