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I had a kind of blind faith. I believed in the collaboration between the firm will of my one-pound-twelve-ounce daughter and the expertise of modern medicine. Of course, there was more than a bit of random luck involved, too.

— Wendy Wasserstein¹

Despite an increase in the frequency of premature birth,² new techniques, including surfactant-replacement therapy and increased use of antenatal glucocorticoids, have led to continued improvement in the survival of extremely premature infants in the 1990s.^3,4 Most follow-up studies of survivors have been limited by small samples, reliance on referral to a tertiary care center, limited assessment, and incomplete . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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