© 2002 Archives of Disease in Childhood Fetal and Neonatal Edition
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Heuchan and colleagues analyse the outcomes of 5712 infants of 24–30 weeks gestation who were admitted to 28 units in the Australian and New Zealand Neonatal Network from 1995 to 1997. The most important independent risk factors for major (Grade 3–4) IVH were gestational age, incomplete or no antenatal steroids, one minute Apgar score < 4, male gender, and transfer after birth. A similar network in the UK is long overdue.
See 86–90
Preterm infants who received a complete course of antenatal steroids were less likely to have cerebral white matter lesions on ultrasound scans than infants who did not get a complete course. However, more infants died when antenatal steroids were not completed, leaving a similar proportion of survivors with white matter lesions in each group.
See 96–101
Now it seems that neonatologists should include Kawasaki disease in the differential diagnosis of fever in the neonatal period. A 12
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