title: [Neuropsychiatric disorders in newborn infants with very low birth weight (VLBW infants)--before and following introduction of modern perinatal medicine. 2. Infantile cerebral palsy, epilepsy and mental handicap (oligophrenia)].
abstract: Simultaneously with the introduction of modern perinatal intensive therapy the infantile cerebral palsies (ICP) of VLBW infants dropped on the average from 23 to 5.9 per cent. In Swedish and West-Australian ICP studies a considerable decrease in the ICP incidence was found in the 60's, but there was again a slight increase in the 70's. A decrease in the epilepsies was found on an average from 9 to 1.6 per cent, whereby in 10 of 16 actual studies mostly performed at early follow-up age no epilepsies were reported. A decrease in the mental retardations (oligophrenias) was found on an average from 22 to 10.6 per cent. There was especially noteworthy a reduction of the severe mental retardations from 8 to 10 per cent to an average of 2.3 per cent.
authors.forename: V S
authors.initials: VS
authors.lastname: Zielonka
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Gmyrek
mesh_terms: D001925:Brain Damage, Chronic / Q000517:prevention & control; D002547:Cerebral Palsy / Q000517:prevention & control*; D006801:Humans; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D007235:Infant, Premature, Diseases / Q000517:prevention & control*; D008607:Intellectual Disability / Q000517:prevention & control*; D007363:Intensive Care Units, Neonatal / Q000639:trends*; D019965:Neurocognitive Disorders / Q000517:prevention & control*; D013036:Spasms, Infantile / Q000517:prevention & control*
vernacular_title: Neuropsychiatrische Störungen bei Neugeborenen mit sehr niedrigem Geburtsgewicht (VLBW-infants)--vor und nach Einführung der modernen Perinatalmedizin. 2. Mitteilung: Infantile Cerebralparesen (ICP), Epilepsie und geistige Behinderungen (Oligophrenien).