Epidemiology of infantile hydrocephalus in Sweden. Current aspects of the outcome in preterm infants.
Författare och institution:
Elisabeth Fernell (Institutionen för pediatrik); Bengt Hagberg (Institutionen för pediatrik); Gudrun Hagberg (Institutionen för pediatrik); G Hult (Psykologiska institutionen); Lennart von Wendt (-)
Publicerad i:
Neuropediatrics, 19 ( 3 ) s. 143-145
ISSN:
0174-304X
Publikationstyp:
Artikel, refereegranskad vetenskaplig
Publiceringsår:
1988
Språk:
engelska
Fulltextlänk:
Sammanfattning (abstract):
The outcome in a population-based series of 61 Swedish preterm infants born in 1967-82 with infantile hydrocephalus (IH) was investigated. Sixteen (26%) died before the age of two years. The available information was updated when the 45 surviving children were at least four years and six months old. A structured follow-up examination was performed in the 13 children who had passed the age of six years. Among the 45 survivors, 47% had cerebral palsy, 51% mental retardation and 33% epilepsy. The overall outcome for preterm infants with IH was found to be poorer than that for fullterm ones. Prognostic factors correlating to a poor outcome were an obvious origin of IH (pre- or perinatal) and a gestational age of less than 28 weeks. It is concluded that handicapped IH children born very or extremely prematurely constitute a new, and to a large extent severely brain-damaged group that has entered the Swedish IH panorama since the end of the 1970s.
Ämne (baseras på Högskoleverkets indelning av forskningsämnen):
MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP ->
Klinisk medicin ->
Psykiatri ->
Barn- och ungdomspsykiatri
Klinisk medicin ->
Psykiatri ->
Barn- och ungdomspsykiatri
Nyckelord:
Female, Follow-Up Studies, Humans, Hydrocephalus, Epidemiology, Mortality, Physiopathology, Infant, Newborn, Infant, Premature, Male, Sweden
Postens nummer:
157144
Posten skapad:
2012-04-27 12:29