Periventricular Leukomalacia

Preferred Label : Periventricular Leukomalacia;

NCIt synonyms : PVL;

NCIt definition : Necrosis and softening of the white matter around the ventricles in the brain. It is usually seen in preterm infants and caused by lack of blood flow and oxygenation in the periventricular brain parenchyma.;

Alternative definition : NICHD: A form of cerebral white matter injury usually seen in preterm infants that is characterized by necrotic degeneration or gliosis of white matter adjacent to the cerebral ventricles, that may evolve into focal cysts.;

Details

Origin ID

C99013;

UMLS CUI

C0023529;

Automatic exact mappings (from CISMeF team)
- Neonatal cerebral leukomalacia [ICD-10 Sub-category]
- posterior ventrolateral plate [UBERON concept]
Currated CISMeF NLP mapping
- Periventricular leukomalacia [PASCAL descriptor]
- Periventricular leukomalacia [HPO term]
- Periventricular leukomalacia [MedDRA Preferred Term]
- Periventricular leukomalacia [ORDO Disease]
- Periventricular leukomalacia [ICD-9 code]
- Periventricular leukomalacia (disorder) [SNOMED CT concept]
- leukomalacia, periventricular [MeSH Descriptor]
- leukomalacia, periventricular [MeSH concept]
- periventricular leucomalacia [Disease (Nov.)]
- periventricular leukomalacia [DO Concept]
DO Cross reference
- periventricular leukomalacia [DO Concept]
Has associated anatomic sites
- Central Nervous System [NCIt concept]
- Nervous System [NCIt concept]
Semantic type(s)
- Disease or Syndrome [UMLS semantic type]
UMLS correspondences (same concept)
- Periventricular leukomalacia [ORDO Disease]
- Periventricular leukomalacia [MedDRA Preferred Term]
- Periventricular leukomalacia [HPO term]
- Periventricular leukomalacia [ICD-9 code]
- Periventricular leukomalacia (disorder) [SNOMED CT concept]
- leukomalacia, periventricular [MeSH Descriptor]
- leukomalacia, periventricular [MeSH concept]
- periventricular leucomalacia [Disease (Nov.)]
- periventricular leukomalacia [DO Concept]
concept_is_in_subset
- NICHD Terminology [NCIt concept]
- Neonatal Research Network Terminology [NCIt concept]
- Pediatric Adverse Events Terminology [NCIt concept]
- Pediatric Adverse Events Terminology Mapped to MedDRA [NCIt concept]
- Perinatal Terminology [NCIt concept]

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