title: [Prematurity: development during the last decade at Erasme Hospital, neonatal evaluation].
abstract: Our institution admitted 39 ELBW (less than 1 kg) between November 1978 and December 1990. In our center, mortality has decreased from 61% to 33% within a decade. Improvements in neonatal intensive care have lowered the limit for these possible survival to 26 weeks of gestational age and 700g of birthweight. Morbidity is still very high. The mean hospital stay is 96 days. Perinatal asphyxia is frequent (3/4) as well as infections, nutritional problems and renal failure. Sixty-six % of this population suffer from respiratory distress syndrome which is the main cause of death. Morbidity and mortality are explained and compared to the recent literature.
authors.affiliation: Services de Néonatologie, Hôpital Erasme, Bruxelles.
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Vermeylen
authors.forename: M F
authors.initials: MF
authors.lastname: Muller
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Detemmerman
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Szliwowski
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Rodesch
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Pardou
mesh_terms: D001530:Belgium / Q000453:epidemiology; D001724:Birth Weight; D005865:Gestational Age; D006801:Humans; D007226:Infant Mortality; D007230:Infant, Low Birth Weight; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D007234:Infant, Premature; D007235:Infant, Premature, Diseases / Q000209:etiology; D015931:Intensive Care, Neonatal
vernacular_title: Le prématurissime: évolution au cours de la dernière décennie à l'Hôpital Erasme, bilan néonatal.