Aim Systemic postnatal corticosteroids are used to treat or prevent bronchopulmonary
dysplasia (BPD) in extremely preterm (EP) or extremely low birth weight (ELBW) infants but …

Importance Survival of infants born extremely preterm (EP)(< 28 weeks' gestation) has
increased since the early 1990s. It is necessary to know whether increased survival is …

Objective Infants born extremely preterm (EP,< 28 weeks' gestation) exhibit poorer growth
and neurodevelopmental impairment in early childhood compared with their term-born …

Aim To determine the rates of early intervention (EI) service use in extremely preterm (EP,<
28 weeks' gestation) or extremely low birthweight (ELBW,< 1000 g) infants between 1991 …

Objective To determine the survival and neurological outcome at 2 years of age of extremely
low birthweight (ELBW, birth weight 500–999 g) infants born in the state of Victoria …

Context. Although individual components of neonatal intensive care have proven efficacy,
doubts remain about its overall effectiveness. Objective. To determine the changes in …

Objectives. To determine the changes with postnatal age for survival, with and without major
sensorineural disability, to 5 years of age in very preterm infants and to contrast their …

Aim To assess the causal effect of being born extremely preterm (EP;< 28 weeks' gestation)
or extremely low birthweight (ELBW;< 1000 g), compared with being born at term, on …

Objective: To determine the survival and sensorineural disability rates in very preterm infants
born in 1991–92, and to compare the results with contemporaneous normal birthweight …

AIMS To compare the survival and sensorineural disability rates in extremely low birthweight
(ELBW)(500–999 g) infants born in 1991–2 with ELBW babies born in 1979–80 and 1985 …