1. The association of the cerebral oxygenation during neonatal sepsis with the Bayley-III Scale of Infant and Toddler Development index scores at 18-24 months of age.
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Rallis, Dimitrios, Karagianni, Paraskevi, Goutsiou, Evanthia, Soubasi-Griva, Vasiliki, Banerjee, Jayanta, and Tsakalidis, Christos
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NEONATAL sepsis , *TODDLERS development , *INFANT development , *AGE - Abstract
Background: Neonatal sepsis has been associated with poor neurodevelopmental outcome, however the evidence regarding the exact mechanism of the inflammation to the developing neonatal brain are inconclusive.Aims: To investigate association between cerebral oxygenation during neonatal sepsis and neurodevelopmental outcome.Study Design: Follow-up assessment of a previously described prospective case-control study.Subjects: A cohort of late preterm (34-37 weeks' gestation) and preterm (<34 weeks' gestation) infants with sepsis and healthy controls, evaluated at 18-24 months of corrected gestational age with Bayley-III Scales for Infant and Toddler Development (BSID-III).Outcome Measures: To evaluate the association between cerebral tissue oxygenation index (cTOI) and fractional tissue oxygen extraction (FTOE), measured with near-infrared spectroscopy, during sepsis and the composite cognitive and motor index scores.Results: Thirty-one infants with blood culture confirmed neonatal sepsis and thirty-five controls were recruited. The cerebral oxygenation was significantly lower in septic neonates, compared to controls (61 ± 7 compared to 72 ± 5; p < 0.001). Infants with sepsis had significantly lower cognitive and motor index scores and higher proportion of suboptimal cognitive (16% compared to 3%, p = 0.045) and motor (16% compared to none, p = 0.008) index score. The low mean cTOI and FTOE noted in septic infants were significantly associated with worse cognitive and motor composite index scores.Conclusions: Infants with lower cerebral oxygenation during neonatal sepsis are at increased risk of worse cognitive and motor scores in the neurodevelopmental assessment. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]- Published
- 2019
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