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Epidemiology of infantile hydrocephalus in Sweden. Current aspects of the outcome in preterm infants.
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- Fernell, Elisabeth, 1948 (author)
- Gothenburg University,Göteborgs universitet,Institutionen för pediatrik,Department of pediatrics
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- Hagberg, Bengt, 1923 (author)
- Gothenburg University,Göteborgs universitet,Institutionen för pediatrik,Department of pediatrics
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- Hagberg, Gudrun, 1924 (author)
- Gothenburg University,Göteborgs universitet,Institutionen för pediatrik,Department of pediatrics
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- Hult, G (author)
- Gothenburg University,Göteborgs universitet,Psykologiska institutionen,Department of Psychology
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von Wendt, Lennart (author)
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- 2008-03-19
- 1988
- English.
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In: Neuropediatrics. - : Georg Thieme Verlag KG. - 0174-304X .- 1439-1899. ; 19:3, s. 143-145
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- The outcome in a population-based series of 61 Swedish preterm infants born in 1967-82 with infantile hydrocephalus (IH) was investigated. Sixteen (26%) died before the age of two years. The available information was updated when the 45 surviving children were at least four years and six months old. A structured follow-up examination was performed in the 13 children who had passed the age of six years. Among the 45 survivors, 47% had cerebral palsy, 51% mental retardation and 33% epilepsy. The overall outcome for preterm infants with IH was found to be poorer than that for fullterm ones. Prognostic factors correlating to a poor outcome were an obvious origin of IH (pre- or perinatal) and a gestational age of less than 28 weeks. It is concluded that handicapped IH children born very or extremely prematurely constitute a new, and to a large extent severely brain-damaged group that has entered the Swedish IH panorama since the end of the 1970s.
Subject headings
- MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP -- Klinisk medicin -- Psykiatri (hsv//swe)
- MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES -- Clinical Medicine -- Psychiatry (hsv//eng)
Keyword
- Female
- Follow-Up Studies
- Humans
- Hydrocephalus
- Epidemiology
- Mortality
- Physiopathology
- Infant
- Newborn
- Infant
- Premature
- Male
- Sweden
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- ref (subject category)
- art (subject category)
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