title: Neuropsychological screening of a group of preterm twins: comparison with singletons.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  Perform neuropsychological screening of a group of preterm twins without major brain pathology and compare it with a control group of similarly preterm children born as singletons.
  
  
  METHODS
  Twenty-three preterm twins born at fewer than 32 weeks of gestation were tested for rapid evaluation of cognitive functions at the age of 4 years. The tests evaluated language, non-verbal performances, learning and attention deficit disorders. Cognitive profiles were established. Links between perinatal factors, clinical follow-up and cognitive outcome were investigated. Their cognitive outcome was then compared with the cognitive outcome of 31 preterm singletons with the same gestational periods.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The twins' neuropsychological outcome was not more marked than that of the singletons. Birth weight discordance and chorionicity were the only predictive perinatal factors with worse outcome in the twin population.
authors: Department of Paediatrics, Hopital Nord, Universite de la Mediterrannee, Chemin des Bourellys, 13015,, Marseille cedex 20, France. marieange.einaudi@mail.ap-hm.fr
authors: Marie-Ange
authors: MA
authors: Einaudi
authors: Muriel
authors: M
authors: Busuttil
authors: Anne-Sophie
authors: AS
authors: Monnier
authors: Isabelle
authors: I
authors: Chanus
authors: Christian
authors: C
authors: Palix
authors: Catherine
authors: C
authors: Gire
mesh_terms: D001724:Birth Weight; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003071:Cognition / Q000502:physiology*; D002658:Developmental Disabilities / Q000453:epidemiology*; D004200:Diseases in Twins / Q000453:epidemiology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D007235:Infant, Premature, Diseases / Q000453:epidemiology*; D008297:Male; D009483:Neuropsychological Tests; D011247:Pregnancy; D047928:Premature Birth; D014427:Twins / Q000502:physiology*
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