Hepatic Haemorrhage in the Newborn

From the Royal Edinburgh Hospital for Sick Children Incidence of Hepatic Haemorrhage It has long been known that injury to the abdomi- nal viscera may cause stillbirth or death in the first days of life. Information about bleeding from the abdominal viscera has been obtained largely from post-mortem examinations of stillborn babies and babies dying shortly after birth. The incidence of bleeding from the liver estimated in this way is shown in Table Hepatic haemorrhage is, there- fore, the direct cause of or a significant factor in TABLE 1 HEPATIC HAEMORRHAGE IN STILLBIRTH AND NEONATAL DEATH