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45 - Early childhood neurodevelopmental outcome of preterm infants

from Section 6 - Assessing outcome of the brain-injured infant

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 January 2010

By
Susan R. Hintz
Edited by
David K. Stevenson ,
William E. Benitz ,
Philip Sunshine ,
Susan R. Hintz  and
Maurice L. Druzin
David K. Stevenson
Affiliation:
Stanford University School of Medicine, California
William E. Benitz
Affiliation:
Stanford University School of Medicine, California
Philip Sunshine
Affiliation:
Stanford University School of Medicine, California
Susan R. Hintz
Affiliation:
Stanford University School of Medicine, California
Maurice L. Druzin
Affiliation:
Stanford University School of Medicine, California
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Summary

Epidemiology of preterm birth: framing the issues of sequelae

Preterm birth is a substantial and growing problem for developed nations. In the United States between 1990 and 2004, the proportion of live-born infants delivered preterm (< 37 weeks estimated gestational age, EGA) rose from 10.6% to 12.5%; the proportion delivered very preterm (< 32 weeks EGA) rose from 1.92% to 2.01%. Thus, more than 500,000 preterm infants and 82,000 very preterm infants were born in the United States alone in 2004. With improvements in perinatal and neonatal care and technology over the past decades, survival of preterm infants has improved significantly, particularly among the smallest and most immature subgroups. In the Netherlands, survival to discharge for infants of 22–27 weeks EGA rose from 36.1% to 67.8% between 1983 and 1995. In two large regional tertiary care centers in Sweden, survival to discharge for live-born infants of 23–25 weeks EGA increased from 55% to 78% from 1992 to 1998. In the state of Victoria, Australia, survival to discharge among infants of 23–27 weeks EGA increased from 56% in 1991–92 to 72% in 1997; of note in the 1997 birth cohort, survival was 41%, 41%, and 73% for 23-, 24-, and 25-week EGA groups, respectively. For extremely low-birthweight (ELBW) infants overall in Victoria, survival rate increased from 38% in 1985–87, to 56% in 1991–92, to 73% in 1997.

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Fetal and Neonatal Brain Injury , pp. 544 - 555
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2009

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