Epidemiology of infantile hydrocephalus in Sweden. Current aspects of the outcome in preterm infants.

Fernell, Elisabeth,1948Gothenburg University,Göteborgs universitet,Institutionen för pediatrik,Department of pediatrics (author)

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.

Hagberg, Bengt,1923Gothenburg University,Göteborgs universitet,Institutionen för pediatrik,Department of pediatrics (author)
Hagberg, Gudrun,1924Gothenburg University,Göteborgs universitet,Institutionen för pediatrik,Department of pediatrics(Swepub:gu)xhagbg (author)
Hult, GGothenburg University,Göteborgs universitet,Psykologiska institutionen,Department of Psychology (author)
von Wendt, Lennart (author)
Göteborgs universitetInstitutionen för pediatrik (creator_code:org_t)

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