title: [Multiple pregnancies. Neonatal morbidity and mortality].
abstract: The increase in the number of multiple pregnancies and the high incidence of prematurity in this type of pregnancy justifies a pediatric evaluation. A retrospective study (1985-1989) compared the perinatal and neonatal characteristics of children resulting from 14 multifetal (at least 3 fetuses) pregnancies, with a gestational age of less than 34 weeks, with 27 children resulting from monofetal pregnancies of the same duration. Neonatal morbidity and mortality appeared to be similar in both groups. Thus at this very early time of onset of labour (mean gestational age of 30 weeks), fetal multiplicity expressed itself neither by any particular neonatal pathology nor by malnutrition.
authors.affiliation: Service de Réanimation Néonatale, Centre Hospitalier Intercommunal de Poissy.
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Lenclen
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Chassevent
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Blanc
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Hoenn
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Olivier-Martin
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Paupe
authors.forename: H J
authors.initials: HJ
authors.lastname: Philippe
mesh_terms: D001034:Apgar Score; D001724:Birth Weight; D002423:Cause of Death; D002585:Cesarean Section / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D005260:Female; D005602:France / Q000453:epidemiology; D005865:Gestational Age; D006801:Humans; D007226:Infant Mortality; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D007234:Infant, Premature; D007363:Intensive Care Units, Neonatal; D009017:Morbidity; D011247:Pregnancy; D011256:Pregnancy Outcome; D011272:Pregnancy, Multiple; D011783:Quadruplets / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D011811:Quintuplets / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D014310:Triplets / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*
vernacular_title: Grossesses multifoetales. Morbidité et mortalité néonatales.