Purpose Retinopathy of prematurity (ROP) is the leading cause of blindness in children worldwide. This study aimed to determine the incidence and perinatal risk factors for ROP in very low-birth-weight (VLBW) Chinese infants. Methods A retrospective study of the medical records of 504 VLBW infants screened for ROP from 2012 to 2015 was performed in West China Second University Hospital. VLBW ...

BACKGROUND Small for gestational age (SGA) is not only a major indicator of perinatal mortality and morbidity, but also the morbidity risks in later in life. We aim to estimate the association between the birth of SGA infants and the risk factors and adverse perinatal outcomes among twenty-nine countries in Africa, Latin America, the Middle East and Asia in 359 health facilities in 2010-11. M...

AIM This study aims to create a predictive model for the assessment of the individual risk of developing cerebral palsy in a large cohort of selected high-risk infants. PATIENTS AND METHODS 1099 NICU-admitted high-risk infants were assessed up to the corrected age of at least 12 months. CP was categorized relative to subtype, distribution and severity. Several perinatal characteristics (gende...

BACKGROUND Vaginal breech delivery is associated with adverse perinatal outcome. The aim of this study was to identify factors associated with adverse perinatal outcome in term breech pregnancies, and to provide clinicians an aid in selecting women for a trial of vaginal labor with the fetus in breech position. METHODS We conducted a retrospective, nationwide, Finnish population-based case-co...

STUDY OBJECTIVE To consider the association between biological and social risk factors and perinatal mortality in an ethnically mixed population in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. DESIGN This was a matched case-control study. Cases included all registered stillborn infants and all registered liveborn infants who died within seven days of birth. Controls were selected from infants remaining alive....

Infants with perinatal sentinel events in the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Neonatal Research Network Hypothermia for Encephalopathy Trial had more basal ganglia and thalamus lesions on brain magnetic resonance imaging but similar neurodevelopmental outcomes at 18 months of age than infants without perinatal sentinel events. Outcomes correlated ...

Gender differences in cognitive abilities exist for children born at term. For very preterm infants uncertainty exists regarding the presence and extent of such differences and their relationship to perinatal brain injury and neurological impairment. This study examined gender differences in cognitive abilities in a cohort of 336 extremely low birth weight (ELBW) infants at 2 years corrected ag...

Perinatal mortality rates and the indications for contraction stress tests (CSTs) were studied in 46 patients with positive test results and who gave birth to infants weighing between 500 and 1 500 g. Severe pre-eclampsia and intra-uterine growth retardation were the indications for the CST in the large majority of patients. The perinatal mortality rate for infants weighing between 500 and 1 00...

Eight million low birth weight (LBW) infants constituting one third of the total annual births are born each year in India as a result of intrau terine growth restriction and/or prematurity [1]. Combined efforts of the obstetricians and neonatologist along with advancement in technology and perinatal care have greatly improved the survival rates of LBW infants over the last two decades. However...

AIM The aim of this study was to investigate differences in mortality up to 1 year of age in extremely preterm infants (before 27 weeks) born in seven Swedish healthcare regions. METHODS National prospective observational study of consecutively born, extremely preterm infants in Sweden 2004-2007. Mortality was compared between regions. Crude and adjusted odds ratios and 95% CI were calculated...