可怕的“搖晃嬰兒綜合征”.

　　Shaken baby syndrome is the most common cause of death or serious neurological injury resulting from child abuse.

　　“搖晃嬰兒綜合征”是因虐童行為導(dǎo)致兒童或造成其神經(jīng)嚴(yán)重受損最常見的原因。

　　It has been a recognized diagnosis for several decades, though many medical professionals now prer the term abusive head trauma.

　　“搖晃嬰兒綜合征”作為一種得到認可的診斷結(jié)果已有幾十年的歷史了，不過現(xiàn)在很多醫(yī)學(xué)專家更喜歡用“虐待性頭部創(chuàng)傷”這個說法。

　　Shaken baby syndrome is dined by a constellation of symptoms known as the triad: brain swelling, bleeding on the surface of the brain and bleeding behind the eyes. For years, those three symptoms by themselves were uniformly accepted as evidence that a crime had been committed, even in the absence of bruises, broken bones or other signs of abuse.

　　這種綜合征是由一系列稱為“三要素”的癥狀來定義的：腦腫脹、腦表面出血、視網(wǎng)膜出血。多年來，這三種癥狀一直被認為是發(fā)生了犯罪行為的證據(jù)，即便沒有淤青、骨折或其他虐待跡象。

　　The concept of shaken baby syndrome is introduced to many Americans through a Massachusetts criminal case: the 1997 murder trial of Louise Woodward, an 18-year-old British au pair accused of having shaken an 8-month-old boy, Matthew Eappen, so aggressively that he died.

　　很多美國人是通過馬薩諸塞州的一起刑事案件，了解到搖晃嬰兒綜合征這個概念的。該案在1997年庭審，當(dāng)時，18歲的英國交換生路易絲·伍德沃德被控用力搖晃八個月大的嬰兒馬修·伊彭致其死亡。