The clinical early outcomes of treatment of premature babies

Abstract

The development of technology to care of very low birth-weight infants is the cause of survival of these patients. In intensive care the mortality of premature infants’ unit with birth weight <1000 was decreased from 64% to 40% and with birth weight 1001-1500g was decreased from 40% to 27%. But it is known, that decrease of mortality in some group of this patients creates other serious problem - the quality of future life. The purpose of this study was to determine how low grade of prematurity would influence on rate intraventricular hemorrhage (IVH), retinopathy of premature (ROP) and bronchopulmonary dysplasia (BPD).

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