Predictors of long-term outcome in very preterm infants: gestational age versus neonatal cranial ultrasound
Predictors of long-term outcome in very preterm infants: gestational age versus neonatal cranial ultrasound
Objectives. To investigate the effect of gestational age at birth on the frequency of ultrasound-detected brain lesions in infants born at <33 weeks of gestation and to investigate whether the relationship between neonatal cranial ultrasound diagnosis and neurodevelopmental outcome at 8 years of age was independent of gestational age.
Methods. Eight hundred forty-seven infants born at <33 weeks of gestation, admitted to a single tertiary referral center between 1983 and 1988, underwent serial neonatal cranial ultrasound. At 8 years of age neurodevelopmental outcome was assessed by structured neurologic examination, psychometric tests (Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children), tests of visuomotor integration (Beery) and motor impairment (Henderson-Stott). Infants were subdivided into a group born at <28 weeks and a group born at between 28 and 32 weeks. Neurodevelopmental outcome was analyzed for each ultrasound diagnosis.
Results. Hemorrhagic lesions such as germinal matrix/intraventricular hemorrhage and hemorrhagic parenchymal infarction were more frequent in infants born at <28 weeks. There was no difference in the frequency of cystic periventricular leucomalacia between the 2 groups. When neurodevelopmental outcome for each ultrasound diagnosis was compared, no significant difference was found between the 2 gestational age groups.
Conclusion. In the gestational age range studied, adverse neurodevelopmental outcome depends primarily on the type of the intracranial lesion rather than on gestational age.
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Vollmer, Brigitte
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Roth, Simon
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Baudin, Jenny
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Stewart, Ann L.
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Neville, Brian G. R.
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Wyatt, John S.
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1 November 2003
Vollmer, Brigitte
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Roth, Simon
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Baudin, Jenny
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Stewart, Ann L.
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Neville, Brian G. R.
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Wyatt, John S.
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Vollmer, Brigitte, Roth, Simon, Baudin, Jenny, Stewart, Ann L., Neville, Brian G. R. and Wyatt, John S.
(2003)
Predictors of long-term outcome in very preterm infants: gestational age versus neonatal cranial ultrasound.
Pediatrics, 112 (5), .
(doi:10.1542/peds.112.5.1108).
(PMID:14595054)
Abstract
Objectives. To investigate the effect of gestational age at birth on the frequency of ultrasound-detected brain lesions in infants born at <33 weeks of gestation and to investigate whether the relationship between neonatal cranial ultrasound diagnosis and neurodevelopmental outcome at 8 years of age was independent of gestational age.
Methods. Eight hundred forty-seven infants born at <33 weeks of gestation, admitted to a single tertiary referral center between 1983 and 1988, underwent serial neonatal cranial ultrasound. At 8 years of age neurodevelopmental outcome was assessed by structured neurologic examination, psychometric tests (Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children), tests of visuomotor integration (Beery) and motor impairment (Henderson-Stott). Infants were subdivided into a group born at <28 weeks and a group born at between 28 and 32 weeks. Neurodevelopmental outcome was analyzed for each ultrasound diagnosis.
Results. Hemorrhagic lesions such as germinal matrix/intraventricular hemorrhage and hemorrhagic parenchymal infarction were more frequent in infants born at <28 weeks. There was no difference in the frequency of cystic periventricular leucomalacia between the 2 groups. When neurodevelopmental outcome for each ultrasound diagnosis was compared, no significant difference was found between the 2 gestational age groups.
Conclusion. In the gestational age range studied, adverse neurodevelopmental outcome depends primarily on the type of the intracranial lesion rather than on gestational age.
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