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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"very preterm infants"”.
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Predicting Neurodevelopment in Very Preterm Infants Using Thalamic MRI Features and Machine Learning
Preterm birth is the primary cause of infant death and is associated with later neurodevelopmental impairments. Neuroimaging is a powerful tool to analyse neuroanatomy abnormalities in preterm infants, allowing the examination of different brain structures, such as the thalamus and its alterations. …
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Impact of a novel relaxation method of touch on neonatal neurobehavioral development among very preterm infants
Infants born very preterm (< 30 weeks estimated gestational age [EGA]) annually and are at greatest risk to develop significant neurodevelopmental abnormalities. These neurodevelopmental abnormalities are the result of complex conditions involving the interaction between multiple biological, …
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Auditory event-related potentials and cognitive outcome after very preterm birth
… and functional correlates of such impairments in preterm infants are incompletely understood, and early diagnostic tools are needed, but still lacking. Auditory event-related potentials (AERPs) are neurophysiological measures of cortical sound detection, encoding, discrimination, and attentional …
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Electroencephalography of premature infants
… prediction of neurodevelopmental outcome in very preterm infants remains challenging. An objective tool with the potential to provide useful information about preterm brain health is the electroencephalogram (EEG) but current knowledge remains incomplete in infants of this age group. The …
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Inflammation and the Insulin-like Growth Factor System at Very Preterm Birth. Implications for Early Morbidity and Development.
… was to evaluate the effects of inflammation at very preterm birth on subsequent morbidity, as well as on the neuro-protective IGF-system. Prospective clinical studies of very preterm infants constituted a base for the evaluation. Temporal changes in levels of cytokines were chosen as markers of …
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The Brains of Babies: A Surface Based Approach To Study Cortical Development in Term and Preterm Human Infants
Half a million infants are born before term gestation each year in the United States. Although advances in newborn medicine have increased survival rates of very preterm infants to almost 90%, surviving preterm infants are at increased risk for developing lasting neurologic impairments. In order to …
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A single-centre Preterm infant Retrospective Analysis of post 6-week Immunisation SideEffects, ‘PRAISE' study, in a busy neonatal unit in the Western Cape, South Africa between 2016-2018
… of the high Underfive Mortality Rate (U5MR). Preterm infants are inherently at higher risk of mortality from VPDs. Studies irrefutably show the benefit of vaccinating preterm infants according to their chronological age with the benefit of timely vaccination outweighing unjustified delays. …
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Preterm intraventricular haemorrhage - Effects of extracellular haemoglobin
… (IVH) is the most common brain lesion in preterm infants and is most commonly seen in the sickest children, with 15-20% of very preterm infants developing IVH. The mortality of infants with severe IVH is 20-50 % in the neonatal period and over 50 % of surviving infants develop …
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Development in children born very preterm after intrauterine growth restriction with abnormal fetal blood flow
Delivery of fetuses with intrauterine growth restriction (IUGR) with abnormal umbilical artery blood flow in the second trimester represents a clinical dilemma. So far, no evidence based management protocols are available adressing when to deliver these fetuses. The high risk of hypoxia and fetal …