title: Neonatal outcomes of premature infants born to preeclamptic mothers.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  Only limited studies with conflicting results are available on neonatal morbidity and mortality in infants born to preeclamptic mothers. The objective of this study was to evaluate neonatal morbidity and mortality in premature infants born to preeclamptic mothers.
  
  
  METHODS
  Premature infants who were admitted to Uludag University, School of Medicine, Neonatal Intensive Care Unit between June 2006 and December 2007 were included in this study. The infants were evaluated according to their demographic characteristics and neonatal morbidities.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Fifty-one infants born to preeclamptic mothers (study group) and 33 gestational age- and gender-matched infants born to normotensive mothers (control group) were included in this study. No statistical difference was found between the two groups in terms of demographic characteristics. However, frequency of neutropenia, duration of mechanical ventilation, and neonatal sepsis rates were found to be significantly higher in the study group compared with those of the control group. Although the rates of other neonatal morbidities such as bronchopulmonary dysplasia, retinopathy of prematurity, intraventricular hemorrhage and necrotising enterocolitis were found to be higher in the study group, the difference was not statistically significant. Mortality rates were also found to be similar in both groups.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The infants born to preeclamptic mothers had significantly higher rates of neutropenia and sepsis. There were no significant difference in terms of other neonatal morbidities and neonatal mortality between the study and the control group.
authors: Department of Neonatology, School of Medicine, Uludag University, Bursa, Turkey. drmerih@yahoo.com
authors: Merih
authors: M
authors: Cetinkaya
authors: Hilal
authors: H
authors: Ozkan
authors: Nilgün
authors: N
authors: Köksal
authors: Zuhal
authors: Z
authors: Karali
authors: Taner
authors: T
authors: Ozgür
mesh_terms: D001034:Apgar Score; D001724:Birth Weight / Q000502:physiology; D016022:Case-Control Studies; D005260:Female; D005865:Gestational Age; D006801:Humans; D007226:Infant Mortality; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D007232:Infant, Newborn, Diseases / Q000453:epidemiology; D007234:Infant, Premature / Q000502:physiology; D007363:Intensive Care Units, Neonatal / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D008297:Male; D009503:Neutropenia / Q000453:epidemiology; D036801:Parturition / Q000502:physiology; D011225:Pre-Eclampsia / Q000453:epidemiology*; D011247:Pregnancy; D011256:Pregnancy Outcome / Q000453:epidemiology*; D018805:Sepsis / Q000453:epidemiology