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Early Brain Development and Preterm BirthOnly 14 pages are availabe for public view
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Abstract
Impaired neurological outcome is a major complication of surviving premature infants, especially extremely premature infants. Survivors of premature birth need to be assessed for neurodevelopmental impairment and if impairment is present, should be referred to educational programs and subspecialty care in order to provide the best possible outcome. This impaired neurodevelopmental outcome is proposed to be predictable by variables describing the peri-natal and neonatal periods. Through this study we aimed to assess risk predictors for adverse neurodevelopmental outcome at 1 year of age in preterm infants. The study was done on 100 preterm infants with gestational age range from 28-36 weeks. They were submitted to complete history taking included maternal age, smoking during pregnancy, antenatal steroid use, rupture of membranes, mode of delivery, birth weight, gestational age, multiple pregnancy, sex and complete physical and neurological examination at 1 year. The obtained data were presented as range, mean and standard deviation values and statically analyzed. The result of our study find that there is negative correlation between maternal age and adverse neurological outcome. There is negative correlation between gestational age and adverse neurological outcome.