1. Neonatal Cranial Ultrasound Findings among Infants Born Extremely Preterm: Associations with Neurodevelopmental Outcomes at 10 Years of Age.
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Campbell H, Check J, Kuban KCK, Leviton A, Joseph RM, Frazier JA, Douglass LM, Roell K, Allred EN, Fordham LA, Hooper SR, Jara H, Paneth N, Mokrova I, Ru H, Santos HP Jr, Fry RC, and O'Shea TM
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- Age Factors, Cerebral Intraventricular Hemorrhage therapy, Child, Cohort Studies, Critical Care, Echoencephalography, Female, Hospitalization, Humans, Infant, Extremely Premature, Infant, Newborn, Infant, Premature, Diseases therapy, Leukoencephalopathies therapy, Male, Neurodevelopmental Disorders diagnosis, United States, Cerebral Intraventricular Hemorrhage complications, Cerebral Intraventricular Hemorrhage diagnostic imaging, Infant, Premature, Diseases diagnostic imaging, Leukoencephalopathies complications, Leukoencephalopathies diagnostic imaging, Neurodevelopmental Disorders epidemiology
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Objective: To examine the association between neonatal cranial ultrasound (CUS) abnormalities among infants born extremely preterm and neurodevelopmental outcomes at 10 years of age., Study Design: In a multicenter birth cohort of infants born at <28 weeks of gestation, 889 of 1198 survivors were evaluated for neurologic, cognitive, and behavioral outcomes at 10 years of age. Sonographic markers of white matter damage (WMD) included echolucencies in the brain parenchyma and moderate to severe ventricular enlargement. Neonatal CUS findings were classified as intraventricular hemorrhage (IVH) without WMD, IVH with WMD, WMD without IVH, and neither IVH nor WMD., Results: WMD without IVH was associated with an increased risk of cognitive impairment (OR 3.5, 95% CI 1.7, 7.4), cerebral palsy (OR 14.3, 95% CI 6.5, 31.5), and epilepsy (OR 6.9; 95% CI 2.9, 16.8). Similar associations were found for WMD accompanied by IVH. Isolated IVH was not significantly associated these outcomes., Conclusions: Among children born extremely preterm, CUS abnormalities, particularly those indicative of WMD, are predictive of neurodevelopmental impairments at 10 years of age. The strongest associations were found with cerebral palsy., (Copyright © 2021 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.)
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- 2021
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