Neuroimaging and the Prediction of Outcomes in Preterm Infants

doi:10.1056/NEJMe068123

Volume 355:727-729		August 17, 2006		Number 7

Neuroimaging and the Prediction of Outcomes in Preterm Infants

Olaf Dammann, M.D., and Alan Leviton, M.D.

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Among the most pressing questions for the parents and caregiversof extremely preterm infants are those about their children'sfuture. Will they survive? If so, what are their chances ofleading a life that we consider normal?

In a large study of infants born before the end of the 26thweek of gestation, only one in five had no neurodevelopmentallimitations at six years of age, and one in five was severelydisabled.¹ So how should physicians counsel the parents of achild born at 25 weeks of gestation or earlier?

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From the Perinatal Infectious Disease Epidemiology Unit, Departments of Gynecology and Obstetrics and Pediatric Pulmonology and Neonatology, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany (O.D.); and the Neuroepidemiology Unit, Department of Neurology, Children's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston (A.L.).

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