Babies born at less than 37 weeks gestation (premature) have different nutritional needs than babies born at full term (after 38 weeks). Premature babies will often stay in the neonatal intensive care unit. There they are watched closely to make sure they are getting the right balance of fluids and nutrition.
Indeed, hypotension may result in low flow or so-called watershed infarctions, and more significantly, it may augment injury from other causes. Due to the limitation of retrospective design, the study did not review the link between postoperative hypotension and the occurrence of stroke.
When a bacterial infection or an infected blood clot travels from the heart to the brain, it can block a blood vessel in the brain, causing a stroke. Strokes resulting from a septic embolism are classified as septic strokes, which means infected strokes. Causes of a Septic Embolus.