ObjectiveTo evaluate the influence of intrauterine growth on intact neurological outcome at 12 to 24 months in a cohort of infants weighing <1500g at birth. Study DesignThis retrospective study was conducted in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Milano-Bicocca, San Gerardo Hospital, Monza, Italy. Perinatal variables were correlated with occurrence of composite adverse outcome, including neonatal death or adverse neurodevelopmental outcome (ANDO), at 12 to 24 months' follow-up, in 240 consecutive very low-birth-weight (VLBW) neonates prenatally classified as growth restricted (IUGR; n=100) or appropriate for gestational age (n=140). ResultsAmong the 214 surviving neonates, neurological follow-up was available in 163. ANDO was present in 46 children (28%). At multivariate analysis, only gestational age at delivery was independently related to the composite outcome (p<0.001, odds ratio=0.69, 95% confidence interval 0.59, 0.81), whereas diagnosis of IUGR was not. ConclusionOnly gestational age at delivery was significantly associated with composite adverse outcome in VLBW preterm infants.
Crippa, I., Locatelli, A., Consonni, S., Ghidini, A., Stoppa, P., Paterlini, G., et al. (2012). Infants Weighing <1500 g: Better Born Too Small or Too Soon?. AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PERINATOLOGY, 29(9), 693-698 [10.1055/s-0032-1314890].
Infants Weighing <1500 g: Better Born Too Small or Too Soon?
CRIPPA, ISABELLA;LOCATELLI, ANNA
;CONSONNI, SARA;
2012
Abstract
ObjectiveTo evaluate the influence of intrauterine growth on intact neurological outcome at 12 to 24 months in a cohort of infants weighing <1500g at birth. Study DesignThis retrospective study was conducted in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Milano-Bicocca, San Gerardo Hospital, Monza, Italy. Perinatal variables were correlated with occurrence of composite adverse outcome, including neonatal death or adverse neurodevelopmental outcome (ANDO), at 12 to 24 months' follow-up, in 240 consecutive very low-birth-weight (VLBW) neonates prenatally classified as growth restricted (IUGR; n=100) or appropriate for gestational age (n=140). ResultsAmong the 214 surviving neonates, neurological follow-up was available in 163. ANDO was present in 46 children (28%). At multivariate analysis, only gestational age at delivery was independently related to the composite outcome (p<0.001, odds ratio=0.69, 95% confidence interval 0.59, 0.81), whereas diagnosis of IUGR was not. ConclusionOnly gestational age at delivery was significantly associated with composite adverse outcome in VLBW preterm infants.
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