Establishment of Cerebral Palsy Research Registry in North Cairo Egypt

Background: Cerebral palsy is the most common neurodevelopmental motor disability in children.There is a lack of information concerning the predominance of cerebral palsy among Egyptian children.Cerebral palsy registry appears to be appropriate tools for answering questions regarding the prevalence and the attributes of the disorder.Aim: To establish a registry of cerebral palsy in North Cairo, Egypt.Subjects: 184 children with cerebral palsy of both genders with age ranged from 3 months to 18 years participated in this study.They selected from hospitals and private centers in North Cairo. Methods: Gross Motor Function Classification System (GMFCS), Manual Ability Classification System (MACS) and Viking Speech Scale (VSS) used for assessment.Results: The results revealed that the boy/ girl ratio was 1.3/1.Spastic CP was the most common type representing 90.3%.Moreover, the spastic quadriplegic type representing 54.9%.According to GMFM, MACS, VSS level V and IV had the highest percentage respectively.Conclusion: Prevalence of CP was more in boys than girls.Spastic CP was the most common type with high incidence of quadriplegia.In addition, hypoxia was the most common risk factor for CP.Furthermore, there were significant relations between types of CP and gestational age, epilepsy, intellectual impairment, GMFCS, MACS and VSS findings.