Brain Injury in the Premature Infant – Current Concepts of Pathogenesis and Prevention
- 1 January 1992
- journal article
- review article
- Published by S. Karger AG in Neonatology
- Vol. 62 (4) , 231-242
- https://doi.org/10.1159/000243876
Abstract
Brain injury in the premature infant and, particularly, the prevention of that injury is an enormous problem. With modern neonatal intensive care, approximately 85% of very low birth weight infants survive, and of these survivals, approximately 5–15 % exhibit major spastic motor deficit, grouped under the rubric, ‘cerebral palsy’, and an additional 25–50% exhibit less prominent developmental disabilities, particularly school failure.Keywords
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