Improved outcome for infants at the limits of viability.
Factors associated with survival and freedom from cerebral parenchymal lesions and severe retinopathy were examined in a cohort of 250 extremely preterm infants of less than 26 weeks gestation admitted to a regional neonatal intensive care unit between 1982 and 1993. There were 99 survivors of whom 73 were free of major early morbidity.


CONCLUSIONS
Logistic regression showed that both survival and survival free from early morbidity were independently related to gestation, birth weight, birth period and antenatal steroid prophylaxis.
Cooke
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Department of Child Health, University of Liverpool, UK.
D001724:Birth Weight; D005260:Female; D005865:Gestational Age; D006801:Humans; D007226:Infant Mortality / Q000639:trends*; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D007234:Infant, Premature; D007363:Intensive Care Units, Neonatal; D016015:Logistic Models; D008297:Male; D017063:Outcome Assessment, Health Care; D012178:Retinopathy of Prematurity / Q000453:epidemiology; D013256:Steroids / Q000008:administration & dosage; D016019:Survival Analysis
D013256:Steroids