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Infants Weighing 1 000 g or Less at Birth Outcome at 8–11 Years of Age
Author(s) -
VEKERDYLAKATOS Z,
LAKATOS L.,
ITTZÉSNAGY B.
Publication year - 1989
Publication title -
acta pædiatrica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.772
H-Index - 115
eISSN - 1651-2227
pISSN - 0803-5253
DOI - 10.1111/j.1651-2227.1989.tb11284.x
Subject(s) - medicine , pediatrics , asphyxia , gestational age , cohort , birth weight , percentile , full term , pregnancy , statistics , genetics , mathematics , biology
Vekerdy‐Lakatos, Z., Lakatos, L. and Ittéez‐Nagy, B. (Follow‐up Clinic, Department of Paediatrics, University Medical School, 1 Kenézy Gyula County Hospital, Debrecen, Hungary). Infants weighing 1000 g or less at birth. Outcome at 8–11 years of age. Acta Paediatr Scand Suppl 360: 62, 1989. 34 long‐term survivors of a five‐year period (1977–1981) weighing 1 000 g or less at birth were followed‐up at 8–11 years of age. Three (8.8%) children had severe functional handicap, 7 (20.6 %) had moderate impairments with the need of special schooling. Twenty‐four (70.6%) attended normal school but 7 (20.6%) with need of special help. The rate of survival was 30 % at the single regional intensive centre where this cohort of infants were cared for. Handicapped infants differed significantly from infants with good prognosis in their neonatal requirements for oxygen therapy and in pathological conditions such as birth asphyxia and recurrent apneic spells but no differences in birthweight, gestational age, route of delivery, maternal age, social class, proportions below the tenth percentile and sex were found.